If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

My linguistics is pretty theoretical.

There's an interesting question, whether the anarchists had alternatives [in Spain]. If they did tend to support the government that had been destroyed, what were the alternatives? There was actually a proposal by Camillo Berneri, an Italian anarchist who was in Spain at the time, which is not a crazy notion in my opinion. He opposed participation in government and was against the formation of an army, meaning a major army to fight [Francisco] Franco.

Power has to be protected from scrutiny. That's the principle of every dictatorship, of every autocracy. You hear it from high priests at Harvard and every government department, that power has to be kept secret otherwise it will fade and it won't work. But Bradley Manning is violating that principle.

Nobody can successfully defy the master of the hemisphere [America], in fact of the world, hence the savagery.