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 events of 11 September 2001 are not exception.

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

There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we live in.

Germany is a capitalist state nurtured carefully and brought back to prosperity by the United States, and it is very loyal to the United States. I don't even think the Germans enjoy full sovereignty. There are some things which they cannot do if the United States doesn't wish them to do it.

We have populations now in the West with a very short memory span. One reason for this short memory span is that television over the last fifteen years has seen a big decline in the coverage of the rest of the world.

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

The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.