“Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.”
“Historians are not by and large inclined to supernatural explanations, but they are addicted to a near equivalent - 'inevitability'.”
“A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.”
“In the War on Drugs, shoot heroin first.”
“The market is a tool, and a useful one. But the worship of this tool is a hollow faith. Far more important than any tool is what you make with it.”
“the things we crave, our silent desires, out little addictions!”
“A movement is pioneered by men of words, materialized by fanatics and consolidated by men of action.”