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Tariq Ali

Pakistani Historian

Born: Oct 21, 1943

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

Corruption Favourable General Hostile Am Movements Social Social Movements Activism

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

Politics Party Please Projected Obama Above He New Annoying Himself Narrow Reagan Up Ended Candidate Wanted Many

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

Government Change Joke Every Cricket Long-Standing Replaced Board Pakistan

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

Democracy Enthusiasm Those Policies Opposed Western Office Stops Elected

A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television. Tariq Ali

War World Seen Country Mountains Every Television Crossing Brutal Beyond Blew Waged Southeast Storm Against Asia Asian Poor Then Vietnam Across Sea Europe Swept Started Every Night Night

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

War Cold Cold War Ways Some Reaction Were Intensity

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

Become Characters Genealogy Firmly Obsession Like Fictional Should Resisted

In 1962, President Kennedy expanded an earlier trade embargo put in place by a predecessor, President Eisenhower, to a total economic blockade, which pushed the Cubans further in Moscow's direction. Tariq Ali

President President Kennedy Further Embargo Total Direction Economic Pushed Put Moscow Cuban Trade Predecessor Eisenhower Place Which Earlier Kennedy

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

Cinema Christian Difficult Define Would Would-Be Classify Buddhist Islamic Jewish

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

Religion Selfish Own Further Always Ends Used

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

Change Big Powers Accept Affects Governments Interests Right

The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a system of institutional oppression, with immense powers of persecution and intolerance. Tariq Ali

Religion Oppression Christianity Intolerance Immense System Attacked Mainly Delusions Institutional Powers Ideological Persecution Reasons Enlightenment Two Set

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

History Go Away Rarely Echoes Never Go Repeats Itself Away

'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism. Tariq Ali

Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century. Tariq Ali

Politics War Great Integrity Generation World Revolution Ralph Russian He Almost Intellectual Left-Wing Dominated Formed Century Socialist Socialists Second Belonged World War Second World War

I was never totally what we would now call 'politically correct,' even in my most militant phase. I always liked good food, good wines. I suppose it was because I had total confidence in myself. Tariq Ali

Myself Good Food Confidence Correct Would Total Totally Wines Never Had Suppose Liked Most Call Because Always Politically Politically Correct Militant Even Now Good Food Phase

The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides. Tariq Ali

An act of unilateral nuclear disarmament by a European power would have a much more lasting impact than all the sanctions under consideration. Sanctions, as we know from the example of Iraq, always affect the least powerful citizens the most. Tariq Ali

Example Power Lasting Consideration Citizens Would Impact More Powerful Disarmament Know Most Always Least Affect Iraq Than Sanctions Much Unilateral Act European Nuclear

Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to produce the ultra-nationalist military dictatorship of General Pilsudski. Tariq Ali

War Army World Dictatorship First Military Chaos General Foolish Poland Red First World First World War After Which Produce Disorder Helped World War

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