Tariq Ali

The European Union has lost virtually all of its credibility amongst large swaths of the European population.

— Tariq Ali

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

— Tariq Ali

For India, the links with the United States/Israel are the centrepiece of its foreign policy.

— Tariq Ali

The extreme center is the political expression of the neoliberal state.

— Tariq Ali

The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government.

— Tariq Ali

Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair.

— Tariq Ali

I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.

— Tariq Ali

I think to compare Germany to the Third Reich is utterly ludicrous.

— Tariq Ali

I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast…

— Tariq Ali

In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted…

— Tariq Ali

“Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a…

— Tariq Ali

Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local…

— Tariq Ali

Political pundits in Delhi and Islamabad have berated the West for its relativism and double-standards. After all why should Britain have a…

— Tariq Ali

I think the big tragedy of the Cuban Revolution was that it became dependent on the Soviet Union, and it became dependent…

— Tariq Ali

I think the United States and its British attack dog are not taken seriously anywhere in the world and can play no…

— Tariq Ali

The implication strongly is that Osama bin Laden is a Hitler, even though he has no state power at all. It's just…

— Tariq Ali

Germany is a capitalist state nurtured carefully and brought back to prosperity by the United States, and it is very loyal to…

— Tariq Ali

There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or…

— Tariq Ali

The judgement makes no sense at all. It exposes the country, Turkey, to ridicule. It would have been so much better if…

— Tariq Ali

As for ISIS, we know where they come from. We know who has used them in the past. We know their sectarianism…

— Tariq Ali

As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be…

— Tariq Ali

The situation in Turkey is extremely troubling. A panic-stricken regime, desperate to divide the Kurdish population from non-Kurds because it feared the…

— Tariq Ali

This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In…

— Tariq Ali

Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members,…

— Tariq Ali

Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.

— Tariq Ali

It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.

— Tariq Ali

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

— Tariq Ali

History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

— Tariq Ali

I think the Americans fished out the same condom but found it had too many holes in it.

— Tariq Ali

The past has too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it's best to forget it and start anew.

— Tariq Ali

In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.

— Tariq Ali

That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the…

— Tariq Ali

“Oh my son,” sighed Ama. “I was talking to the shadows of the pomegranate trees. At least they will be here when…

— Tariq Ali

I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present.…

— Tariq Ali

Most Iraqis, even if they hated Saddam and suffered, say life was much better under him than it was under the occupation…

— Tariq Ali

In January 1961, the United States severed diplomatic relations in response to Cuban nationalisation of U.S.-owned sugar plantations, banks and businesses.

— Tariq Ali

If every single Jew born anywhere in the world has the right to become an Israeli citizen, then all the Palestinians who…

— Tariq Ali

In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis…

— Tariq Ali

I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.

— Tariq Ali

The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes graft and corruption in high places and…

— Tariq Ali