The United States is facing serious pushback from Turkey, which is not comfortable with the view that the Islamic State is a terrorist organization.

Leadership is another word for preparation.

I consider this a kind of neoliberalism of the Left, this rise and promotion of spontaneity above preparation.

The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens.

Where there is a living memory of struggle, they have a living memory of the rebellion. Where there's no struggle afterward the rebellion is forgotten.

To build a mass movement, nonviolence is indispensable.

To be a Communist or to be somebody who believes in the future is a curious thing. So you have to live with people around you, you have to be with the people.

I understand politically that uprisings take place as a combination of spontaneity and preparation, not that preparation is more important than spontaneity.

You cannot have politics without building mass-movements.

You see often it's not ideas, it's inertia, it's bureaucratism, it's all the other things that sometimes come in the way of a good idea.

Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.

Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.

If Hori were to die, I should not forget! Hori is a song in my heart for ever... That means-that there is no more death...

Environment' is a term that creates no pictures in the mind, which is why I have begun to use 'natural world' or 'living planet' instead.

A strong marriage requires two people who choose to love each other even on those days when they struggle to like each other.

I do believe that great love brings with it the terror and possibility of great loss.

Allah never changes a people's state unless they change what's in themselves

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.

Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.

You can't keep a squirrel on the ground.

Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.