Jacques Derrida

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Without effective protection of the citizens' right to property, it will be difficult to attract and accumulate valuable capital.

I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.