Fascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that equals the intensity of their indignation.

It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened.

If you're happy in a dream, does that count?

I feel ashamed that the new, nuclear, neo-liberal India thinks of itself as a 'natural ally' of Israel. Ever since India began to call itself an emerging superpower, it has become a slavish, groveling satellite state of the US.

Some things come with their own punishments.

Things can change in a day.

Many people have accused me of having a romantic view, whereas I personally I feel sorry for those who have lost romance in their lives.

When people say "the people" or "the public" as though it's the final repository of all morality, I sometimes flinch.

The revolution cannot be funded. It's not the imagination of trusts and foundations that's going to bring real change.

Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.

Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.

NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world.

Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.

I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.

What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living.

Money need not be our only reward.

Excitement always leads to tears.

Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.