Tariq Ali

“و البشر منقسمون إلى فئتين لا ثالث لهما. أوغاد مستنيرون، أو حمقى متدينون”

“How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone.Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene.A person close to us die.A person not so close to us carries on living.All these things affect how we live.”

“That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.”

“This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism.”

“Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.”

“It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.”

“Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition to it.”