[After Vietnam] the type of interventions that are carried out are designed so as not to elicit public reactions.

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.

What needs to be done must be done. With grace, it will be done.

God built lighthouses to see people through storms. Then he built storms to remind people to find lighthouses.

There aren't bad ideas but yes bad thoughts

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

None of us knows how we will cope with snakes until the moment arises, and then most of us find out that we do not do it very well.

Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.

In any system, there will be change happening without you.

It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.

When I do my own makeup, I keep things pretty simple.

Always remember that the true meaning of Budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large.