All you have to do is read the business literature. In the 1930s they were very frightened and they were concerned about how the rising power of the masses was hazardous to industrialists.

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.

No one told me holy water had chlorine in it.

I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them

youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!

Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -- the darkness that is always with us.

It's not who's put up the fastest time in the world that year, or who's put up the fastest time in the previous four years, but who can get their hand on the wall first today.

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

I feel like if I ever got into some sort of rumble on the street, I will actually be able to defend myself.

To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.