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It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

~ Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali 2010 20Th Century Activism Civil Disobedience Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Politics Protest Racism United States

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

~ Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali 2010 Affordable Care Act Barack Obama Bravery Cowardice Health Care Health Care Reform Politics Power United States United States Elections 2008

That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.

~ Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali 2005 2010 In Literature 21St Century Hurricane Katrina Natural Disasters New Orleans Politics Politics Of The United States United States

Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition to it.

~ Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali 2010 21St Century American Imperialism Clichés Hegemony Politics United States

The heathen could only be eliminated as a force if their culture was completely erased.

~ Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali Culture Heathen

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

Tariq Ali Anti Democratic Thought Capitalism Democracy Deregulation Economics Financial Regulation Late 2000S Financial Crisis Late 2000S Recession Leftism Neoliberalism

In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.

~ Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali World End Utopia

Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.

~ Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali Positive Value Real

Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.

~ Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali Political Potential Way

The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.

~ Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali Identity Weakness

I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.

~ Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali Reading Me Present
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