Basically, we are witnessing the twilight of democracy.

We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.

The U.S. should come out openly and say to the world, "We are the only imperial power, and we're going to rule you, and if you don't like it you can lump it."

People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't matter because it changes nothing.

There are different versions of Islam... it is meaningless to claim to speak in the name of a ‘real’ Islam.

The sobbing of the weak today is the sobbing of the victims of neoliberal policies. They consist of billions of people all over the world.

Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting.

After flirting with neoisolationism, the U.S. is now deciding it wants to run the world.

American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it's beginning to do so. In a way, it's better. We know where we kneel.

Desperation is the result of globalization.

Only by binding together as a single force will we become strong and unconquerable

What were we talking before I was so rudely interrupted by a flying citrus ?

Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.

I am ready to compromise, but there is one thing I won't compromise on: the safety of the Israeli people.

Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.

I chop and change between what is called 'work' and what is called 'recreation.' There are no discontinuities in my day. I only play tennis with people I find interesting.

Medical research is "immoral even it it's essential."

No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul by Elizabeth Costello, the interloping novelist-angel-inner voice).

If ever an error had "F" written on it, that grounder did.

Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?