There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we live in.

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.

I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people.

I'm absolutely confident that everybody that's been put to death is two things: One, they're guilty of the crime charged, and, secondly, they had full access to our courts, both state and federal.

I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend.

All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used.

In dreams you can become everything you're not. You can reverse the most fundamental truths of your life. You can taste death, the ultimate opposite.

A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake, into short room.

Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe.

The seeing of Truth cannot be dualistic (a 'thing' seen). It cannot be seen by a see-er, or via a see-er. There can only be a seeing which itself is Truth.

If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.

On the left hand path we take the direct route, which is much more strenuous, much more dangerous, and much more likely to cause you to fall.