Hiedra (March 2015) https://issuu.com/revistahiedra/docs/hiedra_issuu/53
“Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.”
Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
“I can tell the difference between senseless terror and justifiable rebellion.”
Regarding the U.S. presence in Iraq Iran calls for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq ahead of security conference http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-03/10/content_5825252.htm (March 10, 2007)
“People will selectively use “tradition” to justify anything.”
Source: Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
“Paradoxes explain everything. Since they do, they cannot be explained.”
Volume 1, Ch. 9
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)
“There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.”
Salon interview (1997)
Context: All political movements are like this — we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.
Source: In Job's Balances: on the sources of the eternal truths, The Last Judgment; Tolstoy's Last Words p. 101
