´The “end of history” has been proclaimed many times, always falsely.´

´Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.´

´An effective regulatory system today would be one guided by a few basic premises that can be applied flexibly but also universally.´

´The freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow.´

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What matters is the way we Americans think about ourselves. We think about ourselves as incapable of committing crimes. Everything we do, we make a lot of errors, you know, you can’t help it. Mistakes all over the place, but out of naïveté or, you know, misplaced kindness or something like that.´

´Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that’s where the light is. It has no other choice.´

´In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison  they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.´

´You can’t mention Hezbollah in the U.S. media without putting in the context of “Iranian-supported Hezbollah.” That’s its name. Its name is Iranian-supported Hezbollah. It gets Iranian support. But you can mention Israel without saying US-supported Israel. So this is more tacit propaganda.´

´Capitalism denies the right to live. You have only the right to remain on the labour market.´

´You go into a hospital now, it’s dangerous. We can get diseases that can’t be dealt with, that are moving around the hospital. A lot of that traces back to industrial meat production. These are really serious threats, all over the place.´

´Right now, we happen to be in a general period of regression, not just in education. A lot of what’s happening is sort of backlash to the 60s; the 60s were a democratizing period.´

´People who spend their working hours in a lab or research library or a classroom might be intent primarily on keeping or advancing their elite positions, thereby lending tacit support to power structures. Or they might not be.´

´Real wages for male workers in the United States are about what they were in the ’60s.´

´What is the nature of the genetic endowment? How does acquisition proceed? Scientists do routinely ask similar questions about the visual system, system of motor organization, and others – including, in fact, the digestive system.´

´The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill.´

´We don’t live in tyrannies, you know, the king doesn’t decide what’s legitimate, and there’s much more freedom than there was in the past.´

´The drones are a terrorist weapon, they not only kill targets but also terrorize other people.´

´One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think – even the activists – that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: ‘Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn’t stop the war so what’s the use of doing it again?’´