I think the United States and its British attack dog are not taken seriously anywhere in the world and can play no role in helping a political solution.

We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.

The U.S. should come out openly and say to the world, "We are the only imperial power, and we're going to rule you, and if you don't like it you can lump it."

People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't matter because it changes nothing.

There are different versions of Islam... it is meaningless to claim to speak in the name of a ‘real’ Islam.

The sobbing of the weak today is the sobbing of the victims of neoliberal policies. They consist of billions of people all over the world.

Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting.

After flirting with neoisolationism, the U.S. is now deciding it wants to run the world.

American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it's beginning to do so. In a way, it's better. We know where we kneel.

Desperation is the result of globalization.

Facts do not become historical evidence until someone thinks up something for them to prove or disprove.

Control is not humble

But there was no going back to that idyllic time when only one god wanted to kill me.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.

Happy, calm children learn best

The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else’s circumstances.

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!

They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.