But I do not know whether the photograph can, or does, say things as they really are. Something has been lost. But the representation is all we have.

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.

Every word you have ever uttered, is engraved upon my heart.

If you see it's impossible, you may use others' eyes.

Haters and doubters got me here, but supporters keep me here.

Sometimes I'm asked to list the most important steps in preparing for an evangelistic mission, and my reply is always the same: prayer... prayer... prayer.

Obviously the actors are incredible at being the audience surrogates in this crazy universe.

My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

Work hard for your goals and live in the moment.

The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.

Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.

That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape our core values in the past few centuries.