Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for meaningful democracy.

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

I know of only one country, at least to my knowledge, which has a dissident culture where leading figures, I mean, the most famous writers, journalists, academics and so on, are not only critical of state policy, but are constantly carrying out civil disobedience and risking imprisonment and often being imprisoned, standing up for people's rights. That's Turkey.

Haiti, which has been the main target of US intervention throughout the 20th century, is the poorest. And Guatemala, which is maybe the third major target of US intervention, probably ranks third poorest.

Human language is nothing like the signalling systems of other animals.

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.