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The philosopher Charles Taylor, following Hegel, points out that struggles over identity are inherently political because they involve demands for recognition.

For Hegel , by contrast, liberal society is a reciprocal and equal agreement among citizens to mutually recognize each other

Cynicism is the besetting and venial fault of declining youth, and disillusionment its last illusion.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

God invented concubinage, satan marriage.

Verona has long haunted the English imagination.

O world invisible, we view thee,O world intangible, we touch thee,O world unknowable, we know thee.

If hatred of sin is necessary to God, then penal justice is equally necessary because the hatred of sin is the constant will of punishing it.

I am proud to have been capable of giving people hope again.

I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.

I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.

A stake or knife must be driven through the heart," said Tommy. "But a sea-vampire, Tommy," I responded, "is—is different.

Poem on anorexic): The only way to escape the history of styles is not to have a body.

Horrible the fate of the advice-giver in our culture: to repeat oneself in a thousand contexts until death, or irrelevance. * I abjure advice-giver.

worship can play a revolutionary role in the transformation of our symbols, including our doctrinal formulations.

narrative interpretation provides the groundwork for a more participatory understanding of biblical interpretation that is shared by many Christian groups globally.

Heresy comes so often not by spreading falsehoods but by the assertion of a single truth, and running that truth in isolation from any balancing

Even in the most favourable periods for cultural development , Intellectuals tend to have uneasy relationship with the status quo.

The truth is that the fever of desire in youth is fleeting disease that intimacy promptly cure.

Sound science must be our guide in choosing which problems to tackle and how to approach them.

Millon and Davis analogize the personality as one's psychological immune system.

I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.