I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the capitalist world-economy.

Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.

Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.

The world system is coming to the structural crisis

When systems come to be far from points of equilibrium, they reach bifurcation points, wherein multiple, as opposed to unique, solutions, to instability become possible.

This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.

Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system.

The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism.

People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.

That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!

America's strong bonds with Israel are well known - this bond is unbreakable.

I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.

I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I'm the most nervous guy in the world, a frightened little man on red alert from when I wake until I go to sleep. I was born with fear.

The door to happiness opens outward.

I'm really just a normal person.