There are different versions of Islam... it is meaningless to claim to speak in the name of a ‘real’ Islam.

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.

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.

The "coalition against terrorism" means the United States. It does not wish anyone else to interfere with its strategy.

It is our duty as believers to bring joy and fortune to the less privileged among us

And so I had to turn corners inside-out with my eyes and to read the third side of a book's page, seeking in futility to gaze at what I could then touch with none of my senses.

Alphas, like Scarface, can be drug dealers, but it’s still a little grimy.

Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.

The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

When I took over, the economy had almost collapsed. I told Malawians we needed to pass through difficult times. Two days ago I even cut my own salary by 30% to show we are making sacrifices.

Im an accidental entrepreneur.

The politics, I don't understand it, I'm not happy, don't feel good about it.