politics

"The real point at issue always is Turkey in Europe – the great peninsula to the south of the Save and Danube. This splendid territory [the Balkans] has the misfortune to be inhabited by a conglomerate…"

"You have heard that it was said, "Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth." But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if someone…"

""Power turns pure being into a having.""

""An absolute power would be one that never becomes apparent, never pointed to itself, one that rather blended completely into what goes without saying. Power shines in its own absence. ""

""Power is never naked. Rather, it is eloquent. ""

""Rather, power is most powerful, most stable, where it creates a feeling of freedom and where it does not need to resort to violence. ""

""Architecture is a way for power to achieve eloquence through form. ""

""Power is more 'spacious' than violence. And violence becomes power if it 'gives itself more time.' Looked at from this perspective, power rests on an excess of space and time. ""

""When power is separated from any communicative context, it becomes naked violence. ""

""Often what is absent has more power than what is present. ""

""Power is not opposed to freedom. It is precisely freedom that distinguishes power from violence or coercion. ""

""The task of power is to transform the always possible 'no' into a 'yes.' ""

""Violence and freedom are the two endpoints on the scale of power.""

""Political independence without economic independence leaves the structure of dependence fundamentally unchanged.""

"We are in revolt, whether to live or to die,"

""Modernization in Ethiopian appears to be a movement that was conceptualized ‘in terms of conflict between tradition and modernity, not in terms of modernity going in for the revival and enhancement o…"

""The student revolutionaries of the 1970s were repeating the same error the first intellectuals made: they considered Ethiopia ‘as a society which must be destroyed and built anew’.""

""People assume that it's more of the high-level stuff that makes change happen. I really believe, though, that it's the organic stuff, initiated by the community and on the fringes – the stuff that mi…"

"We are with the democratic model, we are with freedom, equality and with a state of economic and social rights."

"I want to reiterate that this war could not have been fought without the participation of women. Traditional societies, particularly Bassa society, were organized in this way. Women held a sphere of p…"