Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals.

Whoever is holding the power says, "Yeah, let's keep things civil and quiet." Whoever's outside say's, "No, I'm not going to keep things civil and quiet, I'm going to bang on the door."

Liberalism doesn't speak to ideals. Radicalism does.

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.

What the Cold War did was provide a fairly clearly defined enemy and it's easy to organize around that.

Elite fundamentalism has always going to be involved with a certain set of conservative interests, but certainly not exclusively Republican.

There are real radical Muslim groups out there that really are pretty villainous. You don't have to make them up.

Liberals were just as engaged and using the rhetoric of a sort of a battle with the Soviets and with Communism in general, with an evil empire.

The Family is the oldest and arguably most influential religious political organization in Washington.

You can recruit the populace conservatism for the interests of corporate conservatism that the two things can be married into one unholy union.

Elite fundamentalism has always been on the corporate side of things.

The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies.-Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

That was a good fight back in the gym,” he said. “But I think you could benefit from a few more boxing lessons.

In the last century the Arab thinker Jamal al-Afghani wrote: 'Every Muslim is sick and his only remedy is in the Koran.' Unfortunately the sickness gets worse the more the remedy is taken.

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences.

It's surely one of the strange phenomena of this decade that the most thoughtful gift you can bring a date is not flowers, chocolates, or ankle-length pearls, but a note from your doctor.

Others say that that's not good for the country [to resist Donald's Trump ] and that they should work with this new administration on policies.

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.

Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.

Stretch your mind and fly.