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.

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.

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

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.

Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.

As one would expect, the Pope’s schedule is quite disciplined—he wakes up at four o’clock each morning and runs on the treadmill for an hour. I’m totally kidding. Nobody’s knees have time for that.

Have you ever thought that the only ugl things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains.

You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.

God has gone before us so we can walk in the future He has for us.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

Writing from a character is really fun - sometimes you can be more honest through somebody else's perspective.