“States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.”

The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.

Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.

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

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.

That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.

The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.

So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.