Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.

Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.

The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.

No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.

The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.

Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first century must be left to answer.

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.

Within you is everything you need

The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work.

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

I have respectfully declined the president's invitation to the White House today.

My entire career has been pivoting from company to company. Some people call it lack of planning or direction, I call it flexibility and good improvisational skills.

We also have a conference call feature where up to five people can talk on one Skype call.

I love my dog. Actually, the best portrait I did was of my dog.

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.