The true athlete should have character, not be a character
My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.
You weren’t in any real danger. We knew exactly where you were all the time.
The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky.
Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.
But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That's why they become politicians.
Your temperature's normal, though I'd say it's the only thing about you that is.
I am defending the Jews to prevent them from becoming extinct, because they are doomed to become extinct if they continue this way. . . . I am convinced that the solution is to establish a democratic state for the Jews and the Palestinians, a state that will be called Palestine, Isratine, or whatever they want. This is the fundamental solution, or else the Jews will be annihilated in the future, because the Palestinians have [strategic] depth.
I have argued that philosophy doesn't begin in wonder or in the fact that things are, it begins in a realization that things are not what they might be. It begins with a sense of a lack, of something missing, and that provokes a series of questions.
Everybody gets the tattoo they deserve.
Our ancestors. . . possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them.