The past has too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it's best to forget it and start anew.

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.

nothing motivated a person quite as much as the desire for vengeance.

The secret of real prosperity in the church is to teach God’s people principles of economic empowerment

The one thing I need to leave behind is good memories.

I think the idea of embodying the physical presence of a character is the same on stage and screen. There are just different levels of expression to keep in mind for each platform.

To tolerate is to insult.

The guest is always right - even if we have to throw him out.

Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people in our own lives.

Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.

The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.