Quotes by Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali

All these wars are similar in the way ideology is being used. It’s the ideology of so-called humanitarian intervention. We don’t want to do this, but we’re doing this for the sake of the people who live there. This is, of course, a terrible sleight of hand because all sorts of people live there, and, by and large, they do it to help one faction and not the other.

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People

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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.

Imperialism

Names

Way

As for ISIS, we know where they come from. We know who has used them in the past. We know their sectarianism leads to killings. Here the Turkish state, like its NATO bosses, has helped to create a monster that it now claims to oppose.

Boss

Killing

Past

Dear old al-Maarri was a great skeptic poet. He wrote a parody of the Koran, and his friends would tease him and say, “al-Maarri, but no one says your Koran.” And he said, “Yes, but give me time. Give me time. If people recite it for twenty years it will become as popular as the other one.”

Giving

People

Years

Desperation is the result of globalization.

Desperation

Globalization

Results

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

Challenges

Government

War

Gamal Abdal Nasser, the nationalist leader of Egypt, was described by British Prime Minister Anthony Eden as an Egyptian Hitler. Then it carried on like that. Saddam Hussein became Hitler when he was no longer a friend of the West. Then Milosevic became Hitler.

Eden

Egypt

Leader

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

Ancient

Ignored

Television

How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone.Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene.A person close to us die.A person not so close to us carries on living.All these things affect how we live.

Circumstances

Doe

Persons

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

Condom

Holes

Thinking

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Egypt

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Quotes by Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali

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.

As for ISIS, we know where they come from. We know who has used them in the past. We know their sectarianism leads to killings. Here the Turkish state, like its NATO bosses, has helped to create a monster that it now claims to oppose.

Dear old al-Maarri was a great skeptic poet. He wrote a parody of the Koran, and his friends would tease him and say, “al-Maarri, but no one says your Koran.” And he said, “Yes, but give me time. Give me time. If people recite it for twenty years it will become as popular as the other one.”

Desperation is the result of globalization.

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

Gamal Abdal Nasser, the nationalist leader of Egypt, was described by British Prime Minister Anthony Eden as an Egyptian Hitler. Then it carried on like that. Saddam Hussein became Hitler when he was no longer a friend of the West. Then Milosevic became Hitler.

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

How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone.Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene.A person close to us die.A person not so close to us carries on living.All these things affect how we live.

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

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