The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.