"The whole educational system is designed to turn people into automatons."

"If you want to be a serious intellectual, you have to be able to deal with complexity."

"The point is that we should be trying to create a world in which we don't have to choose between bad and worse."

"The role of the intellectual is to speak the truth, and to expose lies, and to be a witness to history."

"The United States is a society based on violence, and its culture glorifies war and aggression."