 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. |
| States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. |
| The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival. |
| You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it. |
| If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. |
| Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. |
| Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. |
| I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. |
| Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. |
