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

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

Popular support for alternative energy has been very high for years. But it harms corporate profits.

There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.

Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own. . .

There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.

People don't have knowledge and understanding about the outside world, or about history [in the USA].

The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge.

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group.

Destruction of the environment is not only rational; it's exactly what you're taught to do in college.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

If you have worker-owned and worker-managed enterprises, you've got a different sociopolitical system.

America is a very fundamentalist society. It's like Iran in the degree of fanatic religious commitment.

Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed.

I think there are all kinds of intrusions into private rights that make use of contemporary technology.

For a while, after the Second World War, when there was strong support for labor, this was done subtly.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn't picked me up.

On intervention under the UN framework, I think that sometimes that's legitimate, in fact even helpful.

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe.

WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal

It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick.

What's called "liberal" in the intelectual culture means highly conformist to power, but mildly critical.

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

The people who live on the land - Israelis and Palestinians - have a right to live in security and peace.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT.

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in 'array' as far as political purposes were concerned.

The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.

Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.

The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system.

As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

Since James Madison day (and long before), there have been constant struggles over "democratic governance".

Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.

The world was warned of extremely severe dangers unless urgent steps are taken to deal with global warming.

[Health-care system] is largely privatized and unregulated. So of course it's highly inefficient and costly.

I don't like piracy but if anybody's concerned about piracy, why don't they pay attention to our role in it?

The change between horse and buggy to automobile is a big change and there hasn't been a major change since.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

The Internet is an élite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call.

When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood.

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