“Things can change in a day.”

Use your art to fight.

The trouble is that once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There’s no innocence. Either way, you’re accountable.

Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The writer is the midwife of understanding. It’s very important for me to tell politics like a story, to make it real.

The trouble is that once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There’s no innocence. Either way, you’re accountable.

Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.

People who promote the free market and growth are far more romantic, and far more ideologically driven and blinded by their vision than somebody who goes in and comments about the beauty of a forest or the stars in the sky.

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

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

The world’s ‘freeest’ country has the highest number in prison.

Whatever else their faults may be, they were not radical Islamist states – Iraq was not, Syria is not, Libya was not. The most radical fundamentalist Islamist state is, of course, your America’s Saudi Arabia.

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

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

I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don’t know.

We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.

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.

Excitement always leads to tears.

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

Change is inevitable, change is always happening, nothing stays the same, not even yesterday was like today. 

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Life is never easy, but hoping for the best isn’t the solution. Wake up and make the change by yourself.

The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.

You have to change your life if you’re not happy, and wake up if things aren’t going the way you want.

Love is also a powerful weapon in the world. It sometimes can hurt people, kill people or maybe change a person.

Sometimes the things we can’t change are the ones that change us.