"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."
"The crime of liberation theology is that it takes the Gospels seriously. That's unacceptable. The Gospels are radical pacifist material, if you take a look at them."
"I’m just old enough to have heard a number of Hitler’s speeches on the radio, and I have a memory of the texture and the tone of the cheering mobs, and I have the dread sense of the dark clouds of fascism gathering." -- Noam Chomsky