"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."
"Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking."
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"I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see."
"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are."
"People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich."
"The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers."
"The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan."