A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.

The wonders of the holy wonder is timeless mystery.

Good sales copy creates good sales.

Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.

It's good tying the sack before it be full.

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

Without going too deep, without globalization I am not sure everyone would be able to have a supercomputer in their pocket at the low cost.

I will be acquitted and vindicated when the truth is told.

Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.