All media depend on advertisement to survive.

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.

You are not what you want

Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.

No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others

Voice is my instrument.

I have a conviction that it's only when you are put at full stretch that you can realise your full potential.

When we have great treasures before us, we can never see them.

You can't take people's opinions personally. Usually what people say about it is a reflection of them own issues.

I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.