After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators.

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.

To confess greatness and financial prosperity will be a joke if you still waste time and spend time on non-productive events.

What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.

I live way out in the country, in truck-country.

Good questions inform, great questions transform

It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on.

For some people hope is all they have. Encourage them and don't take their hope away, for they will be left with nothing.

Entrepreneurs, because they need money, they are willing to share their crystal ball with someone like me. That's the best thing ever.

There's no one out there like Quentin Tarantino. His films have a signature look, and they never just stick to the same kind of story.

I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.

A teacher should be sparing of his smile.