As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.