It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler.

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.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Sinful heart blames.

No worldly pursuit compares to the joy of experiencing the change of one soul from death to life.

At their best, thrillers not only entertain. Ideally they also reflect the society in which they are set, analyzing our fears and how we perceive the world.

A good friend who points out mistakes is to be respected, as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

This is the last of earth! I am content.

But I'd far rather live without souls or morals than Parmesan.

The good quarterbacks in this league, if you're not playing your best, sometimes will win a game for you

For every person you can trust, there was first a child who was trusted.

In planetary terms, we're all downstream.