Tariq Ali Quotes

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• That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting…
• We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.
• Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting.
• Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The…
• There are different versions of Islam... it is meaningless to claim to speak in the name of a ‘real’ Islam.
• To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will…
• It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.
• Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.
• This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure…
• How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone.Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene.A person close to us die.A person not so close to us…
• If every single Jew born anywhere in the world has the right to become an Israeli citizen, then all the Palestinians who were chucked out…

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