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Tony Blair is a war criminal.
Revolutionaries are not infallible.
Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.
Desperation is the result of globalization.
Basically, we are witnessing the twilight of democracy.
It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.
History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
I think to compare Germany to the Third Reich is utterly ludicrous.
In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.
The extreme center is the political expression of the neoliberal state.
Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists.
Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair.
We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.
In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.
I think the Americans fished out the same condom but found it had too many holes in it.
After flirting with neoisolationism, the U.S. is now deciding it wants to run the world.
Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting.
For India, the links with the United States/Israel are the centrepiece of its foreign policy.
We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.
Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.
It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler.
The past has too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it's best to forget it and start anew.
I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government.
There are different versions of Islam... it is meaningless to claim to speak in the name of a ‘real’ Islam.
It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.
The European Union has lost virtually all of its credibility amongst large swaths of the European population.
Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.
The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.
I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire; there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States.
The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.
The "coalition against terrorism" means the United States. It does not wish anyone else to interfere with its strategy.
One cannot discuss Europe without understanding US imperial hegemony, both globally and certainly in Europe as it stands.
The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged.
As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.
I've called David Cameron worse things than joker....and a former Prime Minister Tony Blair is widely referred to as a war criminal.
History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.
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.
There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we live in.
As a candidate, Obama projected himself as a new Reagan, above narrow party politics. He wanted to please all but has ended up annoying many.
The origins of Indian classical music, not unlike their western counterparts, lie in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures of 2,000 years ago.
I am not insulted by billions of Christians, Muslims and Jews believing there is a God and praying to this nonexistent deity on a regular basis.
Effectively, the EU is a very powerful bureaucracy, dominated now by the German elite, which is backed by the rest of the European Union members.
I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted.