I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe it myself.

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

The military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.

But I'm English. We don't do uplifting.

I don't much mind being expelled from communities.

If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.