The Obama Syndrome Quotes

“It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.”
― Tariq Ali, The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad

“It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right.”
― Teri Reynolds, The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad

“This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism.”
― Tariq Ali, The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad

“Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.”
― Tariq Ali, The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad

“That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.”
― Tariq Ali, The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad

“Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition to it.”
― Tariq Ali, The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad