Tariq Ali

American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it's beginning to do so. In…

— Tariq Ali

Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer…

— Tariq Ali

When a country is invaded and attacked and people resist it's important to speak up and to say they have the right…

— Tariq Ali

I think another crisis, which is being predicted now and which will be worse than what we saw in 2008, could bring…

— Tariq Ali

The European Union is effectively a union dominated by the German political and economic elite. Its main function is to serve as…

— Tariq Ali

Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists.

— 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

One cannot discuss Europe without understanding US imperial hegemony, both globally and certainly in Europe as it stands.

— Tariq Ali

The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it…

— Tariq Ali

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

— Tariq Ali

Basically, we are witnessing the twilight of democracy.

— Tariq Ali

One could think of ways to defeat the censor. I could put up the answers on my Facebook page or website or…

— 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

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

— Tariq Ali

I was never totally what we would now call 'politically correct,' even in my most militant phase. I always liked good food,…

— Tariq Ali

The war in Afghanistan, the first war of the twenty-first century, shows the United States doing what it wants to do, not…

— Tariq Ali

The West and its media have barely covered the recent wave of repression in Turkey. The reason is simple. They are paying…

— Tariq Ali

All these wars are similar in the way ideology is being used. It's the ideology of so-called humanitarian intervention. We don't want…

— Tariq Ali

We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.

— 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 EU is an alliance that the Americans control, in which the EU of course has a great deal of autonomy, but…

— Tariq Ali

Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.

— Tariq Ali

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

— Tariq Ali

Dear old al-Maarri was a great skeptic poet. He wrote a parody of the Koran, and his friends would tease him and…

— Tariq Ali

Gamal Abdal Nasser, the nationalist leader of Egypt, was described by British Prime Minister Anthony Eden as an Egyptian Hitler. Then it…

— Tariq Ali