2010 Quote by Tariq Ali

“The ongoing changes in the distribution of global power and mounting global strife make it all the more imperative that America not retreat into…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“It seemed to me then—and to be honest, sir, seems to me still—that America was engaged only in posturing. As a society, you were…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Nevertheless, the idea that the bankrupt Europeans, who had already put the world through the wringer of two world wars in less than three…

— Yanis Varoufakis

“Hence the American heritage and founding principles must be thrust aside if there is to be human progress. They are dismissed as outmoded and…

— Mark R. Levin

“The logical conclusion of any political expansion surely was equally detrimental, equally devastating, if and when it happened to be successful?”

— Alaa Alghamdi

“I realized that it was precisely because of America’s glaring imperfections that I should seek to participate in its progress, carve a place in…

— Eboo Patel

“It seemed to me then - and to be honest, sir, seems to me still - that America was engaged only in posturing. As…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Everything human … has its period: nations, like mortal men, advance only to decline; dismembered empire and diminished glory mark a crisis in the constitution;”

— Jeremy Paxman

“What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world's ridicule as well as their own social and…

— Frederick Douglass

That the means of imperialist policy overshadow almost entirely its original ends has tremendous implications.

— Paul A. Baran

“Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep…

— Gary Shteyngart

“But in many other cases, just the opposite takes place, and the process of political centralization also ushers in an era of greater absolutism.”

— Daron Acemoğlu