Althusser, Louis

"Consciousness is not the basis of being."

"Being determines consciousness, not vice versa."

"The subject must be decentered."

"Deconstruction is not destruction."

"Reading requires a theory of reading."

"The text is always already interpreted."

"Silence is part of the message."

"Absence is a form of presence."

"Negation is productive."

"Contradiction generates movement."

"The dialectic is a method, not a law."

"History is neither progressive nor predetermined."

"The future is not yet determined."

"We must struggle for a different future."

"Struggle is the essence of historical change."

"Revolution requires theory and practice."

"Practice is always theory-laden."

"There is no innocent position."

"Responsibility comes with knowledge."

"The intellectual must be partisan."

"Neutrality is a myth."

"All knowledge is knowledge from somewhere."

"The universal is always particular."

"Difference is the condition of identity."

"Plurality cannot be reduced to unity."

"System and contradiction coexist."

"Understanding requires recognizing overdetermination."

"Causes are always multiple and complex."

"Simple causality is a fiction."

"Structures shape but do not determine action."