Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by the colonized, is shaken.

Violence is the first means and the last resort to pacify a people, and thus is something we need to continue to consider after the gunfire has ended.

Many of the democratization projects are a real threat to real democracy.

The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds.

Manicheanism is like a vacuum, it is an either or situation that curtails or destroys the development of liberatory thought.

The military defeat of an oppressive regime is important, but it does not answer our problems. It is where our problems begin, since social change cannot be reduced to a military solution.

The revolts themselves open up something very new. One has to be aware, or listen, or open one's mind to what are the new beginnings.

Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.

The Syrian people do not recognize themselves in the elite politics of the Muslim Brotherhood or the left, each of which is looking for an external power rather than the people's own self-activity.

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words.

That's the problem with belief: If you rely on it too heavily, you have a lot of picking up to do after you find out you were wrong.

Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith.

Marriage, friends, is a lifelong feast; love is no light lunch.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

Development, it turns out, occurs through this process of progressively more complex exchange between a child and somebody else- especially somebody who’s crazy about that child

The church meets to imagine what our lives can be like if the gospel were true.