Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

Stability means you do what we say, and what we say is that Colombia and the resources of the Andean region shall be freely available to the rich and powerful of the world, particularly US-based multinational corporations.

You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.

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

You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good unless you know what you are looking for.

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

French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go from one absurdity to another - Stalinism, existentialism. Lacan, Derrida - some of them obscene ( Stalinism), some simply infantile and ridiculous ( Lacan, Derrida). What is striking, however, is the pomposity and self-importance, at each stage.