“Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats are pretty much what used to be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“When I was a schoolboy in England, the old bound volumes of Kipling in the library had gilt swastikas embossed on their… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Lucas crept around the building to the back parking lot. And there it was, just like he had seen from the roof—a… — Paul Aertker Copy Share Image
“When World War II erupted, colonialism was at its apogee. The courde of the war, however, its symbolic undertones, would sow the… — Ryszard Kapuściński Copy Share Image
“Yet, with all his acuteness, it did not occur to him that Europe was not in the least to blame for his… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“Fallujah was a Guernica with no Picasso. A city of 300,000 was deprived of water, electricity, and food, emptied of most of… — Jean Bricmont Copy Share Image
“A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“In Paris the cashiers sit rather than stand. They run your goods over a scanner, tally up the price, and then ask… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
“The construction of civilizational difference is not exclusive in any simple sense. The de-essentialization of Islam is paradigmatic for all thinking about… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
“All European writers are ‘slaves of their baptism,’ if I may paraphrase Rimbaud; like it or not, their writing carries baggage from… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
“And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny and fascism and war,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Criminals beheaded in Palermo, heretics burned alive in Toledo, assassins drawn and quartered in Paris—Europeans flocked to every form of painful death… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“Burning books. Like the Christians. Like the Nazis. Like the Communists. Burning knowledge. Eliminating. History. Rewriting. No life under such circumstances. “F…g… — Tomas Adam Nyapi Copy Share Image
“I was having dinner…in London…when eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about “Your country’s never been invaded.”… — P.J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“I watched the shadow of our plane hastening below us across hedges and fences, rows of poplars and canals … Nowhere, however,… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“My pillowcases were totally full and the boots hanging around my neck added to the weight I was carrying, but I was… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
“If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among them, as they… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Suppose that a man leaps out of a burning building—as my dear friend and colleague Jeff Goldberg sat and said to my… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all,… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“We think ourselves possessed, or at least we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects and of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Before we had finished the third round of beers, little Johnny and I had been poisoned. Someone must have put something in… — Tomas Adam Nyapi Copy Share Image
“It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“...the centrality of competitiveness as the key to growth is a recurrent EU motif. Two decades of EC directives on increasing competition… — Mark Blyth Copy Share Image