“To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.”
“The very fact that 'the mystical' is seen as irrelevant to issues of social and political authority itself reflects contemporary, secularized notions of and attitudes toward power. The separation of the mystical from the political is itself a political decision!”
“The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.”
“The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.”
“What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.”
“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”