"You can't have a functioning democracy if the public is excluded from participation in the major decisions that affect their lives."

"The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control — 'indoctrination,' we might say — exercised through the mass media."

"The business world has a kind of religion: profit maximization. And that's what drives it."

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very spirited debate within that spectrum."

"The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself."