It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting.

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.

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.

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair.

In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history.