Faheem Akbar

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky

“We cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable."

[ The Berlin Crisis: Radio and Television Address to the American People (The White House, July 25, 1961)]”
― John F. Kennedy

“Afghanistan is not only the mirror of the Afghans: it is the mirror of the world. 'If you do not like the image in the mirror, do not break the mirror, break your face,' says an old Persian proverb.”
― Ahmed Rashid, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia

“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
― Noam Chomsky