America is a very fundamentalist society. It's like Iran in the degree of fanatic religious commitment.

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.

Leaders know the great deal of productivity that comes out of a strong self-esteem. They help others to develop this esteem so that productivity can increase.

Ours was the age of enlightenment, he said, when the battle cry was, ‘We must know, we shall know!’, and reason would depose superstition and we be liberated by it.

There are as many paths to Truth as there are souls of men.

You can love people, and you can befriend them, but the only person you can ever one hundred percent depend on is yourself.

I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.

Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.

Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.

You can be a writer who doesnt read everyday. But youre not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

When I shut off the verbal, I like to escape into the visual.

I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are.