The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity... That's the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there's a constant struggle between those. In the colleges, in the schools, do you train for passing tests, or do you train for creative inquiry?

I agree with Bill Clinton that US forces should not be sent to Haiti, but not for his reasons.

Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

There certainly are those who worship the state much as divinities are worshipped. Not just the state but even leaders.

Technologies can be liberating, but it can also be a tool of coercion and control.

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