A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.

The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.

To live a life of honesty and integrity is the responsibility of every decent person.

One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.

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

You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

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

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

The best defence against democracy is to distract people.

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

What's the point of being better than someone else?

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.