I don't recall an American president basically coming out and criticizing the Israeli public.

Leadership is another word for preparation.

I consider this a kind of neoliberalism of the Left, this rise and promotion of spontaneity above preparation.

The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens.

Where there is a living memory of struggle, they have a living memory of the rebellion. Where there's no struggle afterward the rebellion is forgotten.

To build a mass movement, nonviolence is indispensable.

To be a Communist or to be somebody who believes in the future is a curious thing. So you have to live with people around you, you have to be with the people.

I understand politically that uprisings take place as a combination of spontaneity and preparation, not that preparation is more important than spontaneity.

You cannot have politics without building mass-movements.

You see often it's not ideas, it's inertia, it's bureaucratism, it's all the other things that sometimes come in the way of a good idea.

Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.

Think you're a slave and you'll find a master

Every morning I have something to do, I'm better off. It's bad to get up and not have something to do.

Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.

Sin is present in everyone as a nature before it expresses itself in deeds

We're going to raise the estate tax for wealthy, very wealthy people.

But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.

Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations.

I'm not leaving until you say yes.