"To accept that there are many equally valid perspectives on values, justifications and the world does not logically necessitate tolerance."

"The concepts of interest to philosophers are often, at first sight, the ones that seem the most trivial."

"I sense that humanisation is the problem as much as the solution because it masks efforts at domination."

"We cannot go blithely into the world believing whatever we want because belief is a communal object."

"Human progress should not be defined in strictly material or spiritual terms, but in our capacity to unite the two."

"Cumulative human activities can impact on millions of geographically dispersed people in deeply harmful ways".

"Intersectionality offers multiply marginalized people a way to identify and interpret forms of violence, oppression, and exploitation."

"I have no interest in arguing that memoir is actually philosophy and philosophy is actually memoir. I’m happy to cannibalise both."

"Regarding meaning, death just does what time would do eventually anyway, but perhaps more mercifully."

"Violence cannot be understood only through the gesture of the blow, but equally through the systemic suffering that permeates our lives."

Reality is not in people’s heads as much as it is created through the interaction of specific groups of people in specific times and places.

"A border is never just a border, a gate to be opened or closed at will."