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Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists. — Tariq Ali

Oh my son," sighed Ama. "I was talking to the shadows of the pomegranate trees. At least they will be here when we are all gone. — Tariq Ali

History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away. — Tariq Ali

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

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

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly. — Tariq Ali

It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler. — Tariq Ali

I am not insulted by billions of Christians, Muslims and Jews believing there is a God and praying to this nonexistent deity on a regular basis. — Tariq Ali

Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever. — Tariq Ali

In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg. — Tariq Ali

The heathen could only be eliminated as a force if their culture was completely erased. — Tariq Ali

The Lumiere brothers first exhibited moving pictures in Paris in 1896. A year later, there was a private showing at the Yildiz palace in Istanbul. — Tariq Ali

The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire; there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States. — Tariq Ali

For India, the links with the United States/Israel are the centrepiece of its foreign policy. — Tariq Ali

Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world. — Tariq Ali

Revolutionaries are not infallible. — Tariq Ali

I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption. — Tariq Ali

As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America. — Tariq Ali

It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one. — Tariq Ali

In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War. — Tariq Ali

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

There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we live in. — Tariq Ali

The past has too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it's best to forget it and start anew. — Tariq Ali

During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events. — Tariq Ali

I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad. — Tariq Ali

I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests. — Tariq Ali

In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right. — Tariq Ali

Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair. — Tariq Ali

The origins of Indian classical music, not unlike their western counterparts, lie in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures of 2,000 years ago. — Tariq Ali

Desperation is the result of globalization. — Tariq Ali

As a candidate, Obama projected himself as a new Reagan, above narrow party politics. He wanted to please all but has ended up annoying many. — Tariq Ali

Al Qaeda's central political objective is the creation of an Islamic republic, not the progressive realignment of American foreign policy. — Simon Cottee

I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted. — Tariq Ali

Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century. — Tariq Ali

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television. — Tariq Ali

We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69. — Tariq Ali

Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow. — Tariq Ali

Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends. — Tariq Ali

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

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights. — Tariq Ali

I think the Americans fished out the same condom but found it had too many holes in it. — Tariq Ali

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. — Tariq Ali

Ben-Gurion and Moshe Dayan were self-proclaimed atheists. — Tariq Ali

The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government. — Tariq Ali

The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted. — Tariq Ali

Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office. — Tariq Ali

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

The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged. — Tariq Ali