As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies.

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.

Transform from being a fault-finder and blamer to a happiness-finder and appreciator. Positive emotions will increase in your life.

You are a true success if you can trust yourself, love yourself, and be yourself.

A cup to the dead already - Hurrah for the next that dies.

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat.

Books and beer are the best and worst defense.

Nothing good happened to Romeo or Juliet.

Trust me I never lose. Either I win or learn from it