[9/11] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it.

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.

History is written by those who win and those who dominate.

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.

No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.

Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.

We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.

The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.

My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.

I will reveal you who I am. I am your reflection.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

A little step every day makes you reach your final destination. Don't be hasty, take it easy your ultimate goal is just a few steps away.

Weep hard as much as you need

I wish Goodreads was also a dating site.

He could deal with his guilt all by himself. Guilt didn't add up to love, an emotion she was done with forever.

Why would I be willing to challenge my Republican leadership? Because my allegiance will always be to the Constitution and the American people first and foremost, not to my political party.

The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.

I just think the more were observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.