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

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.

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.

Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness.

Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.

Notwithstanding how long you shall keep thinking about it, action is what will make it a reality! When you dream, act! When you act, act well!

My mind is so clever, but it does me no favors.

How can you be a vegetarian atheist and own a gun? Well, that's who I am.

I got reckless baby, put you in your place. Next time, maybe rearrange your face.

When you watch Canadian kids [Box Lacrosse Players] score, when you see their skill level around the cage, you wonder to yourself, 'Jeez, are we teaching kids [in the U.S.] the wrong things?

It is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one.

When I go home to Santa Cruz, I'm the same girl as when I grew up.

Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.

A flat black bug, that is London.