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.

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

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.

The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960.

You say that you don’t care about age and that you’re ready to push the wheelchair and hose down my bum, but how can you be sure?

There should be marches in every neighborhood every day telling the people about the negativity of drugs and how the drugs help us to behave negatively.

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

Don't let your fear of failing triumph over the joy of participating.

The choice of a mate is crucial because no one has a greater influence on our spiritual lives.

If you are sure of tomorrow, there is no fool greater than you!

All the great Founders of religions have been possessed of clairvoyant sight.

Love your life and live your spirit!