One cannot discuss Europe without understanding US imperial hegemony, both globally and certainly in Europe as it stands.

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.

It is not the size of the candle that matters, but the size of its light.

Living in the past is like choosing to cling to a chronic illness.

Our universe was created to perpetuate creation, it was not created to perpetuate consumption.

Discipline is a given

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

The most common mistakes women make when applying makeup are not applying it in the proper light and not using their hands as blending tools.

There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't have a good director, it won't be that.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'