Tariq Ali Quotes

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

Jim Bakker came along. He said, Jessica Hahn, listen. You're a virgin. As God as my witness. He said, We need a girl that we can trust.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are particularly popular among those seeking power for their own personal pleasure, politicians who can't think of anything useful to do with their mandates, and religious professionals suffering from a personal inability to communicate with their god.

Suspect power more than vice.

For his own sordid ends The pulpit he ascends

Don't you go believing in sayings … they are all made by men, for their own advantages.

The possession of power does not necessarily imply its unrighteous or oppressive use, although it generally awakes suspicion.

You let men in power assume power for the Little Man. But you yourself remain silent. You give men in power or impotent people with evil intentions the power to represent you. Only too late do you realize that again and again you are being defrauded

People who exploit their power and abuse others need to be revealed.

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

You can't trust anybody with power.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members' lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a 'cult'; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.

I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention.

The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.