Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.

History is written by those who win and those who dominate.

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.

No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.

Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.

We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.

The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.

My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.

The wolves wait for you, little lamb.

A breath of our inspiration / Is the life of each generation.

I want to win a Grammy. I want to be on the cover of Rolling Stone. I want to be a musical guest on 'Saturday Night Live.' And I want to play arenas and have tons of people watching me.

Enthusiasm — real grassroots enthusiasm — trumps money, trumps endorsements, trumps everything.

Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.

I feel lucky to be doing TV right now because I get another chance every day.

This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.

I just really like seeing mundane stuff in movies. It's realistic.

It's time to be with my brother now