I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

The reason academic disputes are so vicious is that so little is at stake.

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

I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and follow their orders, and that they own and you work there, and you built it but you don’t own it, that’s a highly unnatural notion. You don’t have to study any complicated theories to see that this is an attack on human dignity.

What the US does is the kind of thing I described in Italy in 1948. Case after case like that, not hacking or spreading rumors in the media; but saying look, we're going to starve you to death or kill you or destroy you unless you vote the way we want. I mean that's what we do.

I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe.

There are some very general ideas that people can keep in mind; they're kind of truisms. It's only worth mentioning them because they're always denied.