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Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair  (Tariq Ali Quotes) During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn’t just accept the official version of events.  (Tariq Ali Quotes) The past has too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it’s best to forget it and start anew.  (Tariq Ali Quotes) I think the big tragedy of the Cuban Revolution was that it became dependent on the Soviet Union, and it became dependent on the Soviet Union under a very reactionary bureaucratic regime led by Leonid Brezhnev.  (Tariq Ali Quotes) People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn’t matter because it changes nothing.  (Tariq Ali Quotes) American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it’s beginning to do so. In a way, it’s better. We know where we kneel.  (Tariq Ali Quotes) It’s a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler.  (Tariq Ali Quotes) 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 to do this, but we’re doing this for the sake of the people who live there. This is, of course, a terrible sleight of hand because all sorts of people live there, and, by and large, they do it to help one faction and not the other  (Tariq Ali Quotes) American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it’s beginning to do so. In a way, it’s better. We know where we kneel  (Tariq Ali Quotes) After flirting with neoisolationism, the U.S. is now deciding it wants to run the world  (Tariq Ali Quotes) There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we live in  (Tariq Ali Quotes) People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn’t matter because it changes nothing  (Tariq Ali Quotes) The sobbing of the weak today is the sobbing of the victims of neoliberal policies. They consist of billions of people all over the world  (Tariq Ali Quotes) The United States is now The Empire. There isn’t an empire; there’s The Empire, and that empire is the United States  (Tariq Ali Quotes) During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn’t just accept the official version of events  (Tariq Ali Quotes) History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television  (Tariq Ali Quotes) The implication strongly is that Osama bin Laden is a Hitler, even though he has no state power at all. It’s just grotesque if you seriously think about it  (Tariq Ali Quotes) It’s a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler  (Tariq Ali Quotes) We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane  (Tariq Ali Quotes) It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights  (Tariq Ali Quotes) 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 the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism  (Tariq Ali Quotes) Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting  (Tariq Ali Quotes)