“We spent time on Burma and the need for the military regime there to understand that they shouldn't fear the voices of people. And yet they do.”

“...the church lives in a regime of ecclesial authoritarian security and the military elites live in a regime of national authoritarian security. These structures produce the same kind of authoritarian people, with a super defensive stance in their strategies and argumentation. This is why they understand each other! (Leonardo Boff, p. 178)”

“My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma”

“there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change”

“In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental claim of Marxist theory: there must be countervailing forces that defend people's needs against the brutality of profit driven capitalism.”

“These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.”