Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans.

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.

History is really a study of the future, not the past.

Explore your own innermost thoughts to create content that will evoke deeply relatable emotions and passion in others.

I’ve come to accept the voices in my head… I just wish they didn’t spit when they talk.

Economy and environment are the same thing. That is the rule of nature.

Faith is a vulnerable thing, not a battle.

Who would drink from a cup when they can drink from the source?

You can change your life, and you can heal yourself.

I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.

A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it.