Derrida, Jacques

"The decision demands courage."

"Writing is always political."

"The other is absolutely other."

"Being remains in question."

"Justice remains to come."

"The archive is an institution."

"Language is never transparent."

"The event ruptures the present."

"Being is always deferred."

"There is no outside-text; context is everything and nothing simultaneously."

"The trace of the other is always already within us, disrupting our presence."

"Deconstruction is not destruction; it is a careful reading of internal contradictions."

"We are always already caught in networks of meaning we did not create."

"The gift that announces itself is no longer a gift; it becomes an exchange."

"Hospitality begins where we make space for the absolutely other."

"Writing is the necessity of infinite interpretation."

"The secret is what cannot be shared without ceasing to be secret."

"Justice is incalculable; it exceeds all systems of law."

"Forgiveness is impossible, yet we must attempt it endlessly."

"The archive is never complete; it always defers its own understanding."

"Language never fully captures what we wish to say."

"Différance is the spacing that constitutes meaning and its deferral."

"The specter haunts us with what is neither present nor absent."

"We inherit what we do not choose and cannot fully own."

"Responsibility demands we respond to singular others, never in general."

"The margin speaks as loudly as the center, if we listen."

"Time is not a line but a palimpsest of layers."

"Every decision involves a kind of violence toward alternatives."

"The name can never be reduced to what it names."

"Mourning is the work of acknowledging what we can never fully possess."