A good education instills in you the intuitive comprehension - it becomes unconscious and reflexive - that you just don't think certain things, things that are threatening to power interests.

Bear in mind that we [ with Edward Herman] did not devise the terms "manufacture of consent" and "engineering of consent." We borrowed them from leading figures in the media, public relations industry, and academic scholarship.

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

I don't like the intellectual label.

I have written occasionally on links between my scientific work and political thinking, but not much, because the links seem to me abstract and speculative.

If we move toward the weaponisation of space, we can bid farewell to the planet. The chances of survival are very slight.

It was declared by Congress that marijuana makes people insane. But . . . lawyers, defense lawyers, got the idea, OK, I can use this for an insanity defense.