People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't matter because it changes nothing.

We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

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

The U.S. should come out openly and say to the world, "We are the only imperial power, and we're going to rule you, and if you don't like it you can lump it."

There are different versions of Islam... it is meaningless to claim to speak in the name of a ‘real’ Islam.

The sobbing of the weak today is the sobbing of the victims of neoliberal policies. They consist of billions of people all over the world.

Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting.

After flirting with neoisolationism, the U.S. is now deciding it wants to run the world.

American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it's beginning to do so. In a way, it's better. We know where we kneel.

Desperation is the result of globalization.

The "coalition against terrorism" means the United States. It does not wish anyone else to interfere with its strategy.

The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. ... War is Peace.

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.

Talent is a gift, but you can only succeed with hard work.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

How many evils have flowed from religion.

Work is one of the best educators of practical character.

Peeta bakes. I hunt. Haymitch drinks until the liquor runs out.

I don't know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB.