Amina Dessouki

“The principle must always rule that ideas are not born of other ideas, philosophies of other philosophies; they are a continually renewed expression of real historical development. The unity of history (what the idealists call unity of the spirit) is not a presupposition, but a continuously developing process.”
― Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks

“Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“We ought not to speak only about the economics of globalization, but about the psychology of globalization. It's like the psychology of a battered woman being faced with her husband again and being asked to trust him again. That's what is happening. We are being asked by the countries that invented nuclear weapons and chemical weapons and apartheid and modern slavery and racism - countries that have perfected the gentle art of genocide, that colonized other people for centuries - to trust them when they say that they believe in a level playing field and the equitable distribution of resources and in a better world. It seems comical that we should even consider that they really mean what they say.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations With Arundhati Roy

“Preparations for the slaughter of mankind have always been made in the name of God or some supposed higher being which men have devised and created in their own imagination.”
― Jaroslav Hašek, The Good Soldier Švejk