“Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims.”

We face an essential need to reach a definition of terrorism that will enjoy wide international agreement, thus enabling international operations against terrorist organizations.

IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.

The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.

In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.

For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.

We should read other people’s books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer’s thought that help us to do so.

The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.

You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.