Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it (9/11 event] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people.

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.

History is written by those who win and those who dominate.

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.

No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.

Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.

We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.

The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.

My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.

Every good and great idea must have a good window and doors

But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.

Brought to you by raising your voice. The next best thing to being right.

If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.

This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power.

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

Paul Ryan I don't think wants to work. I think Paul Ryan wants the status quo, and I think Paul Ryan is a Never Trumper.

When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.