Part of the core information that I’ve been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don’t play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let’s say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they’re equally dangerous.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

If there’s something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men’s clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not ‚Am I really that oppressed?‘ but ‚Am I really that boring?‘

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you’ll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an accomplice of Israel, the sixth nuclear power on the planet, associated with the war-mongering NATO group.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

I like pin-up girls. I’m more of a boy than a girl. I’m not a lesbian, though – not before a sambuca anyway.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

Throughout my life, I’ve always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

I am confident my Hindutva face will be an asset when dealing with foreign affairs with other nations.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

As much as I’m a black person from America, I’m a black person from Africa, too.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.