Many of the democratization projects are a real threat to real democracy.

Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by the colonized, is shaken.

Violence is the first means and the last resort to pacify a people, and thus is something we need to continue to consider after the gunfire has ended.

The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds.

Manicheanism is like a vacuum, it is an either or situation that curtails or destroys the development of liberatory thought.

The military defeat of an oppressive regime is important, but it does not answer our problems. It is where our problems begin, since social change cannot be reduced to a military solution.

The revolts themselves open up something very new. One has to be aware, or listen, or open one's mind to what are the new beginnings.

Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.

The Syrian people do not recognize themselves in the elite politics of the Muslim Brotherhood or the left, each of which is looking for an external power rather than the people's own self-activity.

(T)hey were at ease with each other, which was essential to a productive workshop.

Some women have become far too proscriptive of other women's pleasures and private arrangements, and the definition of feminism has become ideologically overloaded.

My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

There's no sense in trying to be or look like anyone other than yourself.

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

I feel like any other Brazilian citizen, I have a lot of happiness in me. I thank God for showing me the path to follow.

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

I've never really done any interviews as myself.

Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion