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“All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this ideal entity and to bring to the fore yet another inadequacy.”
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“I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it out to each other.”
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“Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within his personality, a short circuit in his identity. The result is his originality, his creativity comes to an end. He becomes the one-book novelist or the one-trilogy writer.”
Source : 1987 'The Eternal Plebeian and Other Matters', in Shifting Landscape.
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“I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.”
Source : "Scottish Labour leader's mission: to revive the party... and save the union". Interview with Severin Carrell, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2011. 
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“The most sophisticated pop musician that I knew of and liked was Paul McCartney.”
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“Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with other dogs, roam, sleep, have sex. Little of this is what we want them to do, of course. We ask them to sit, stay, smell peasant, practice abstinence, and be accommodating.”
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“The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.”
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“However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia.”
Source : Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.49, Basic Books
