As far as DSA is concerned, I'm perfectly happy to be associated with it while disagreeing with a large part of the leadership.

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.

I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.

Darkness is a place that encourages us to seek light.

I had been there before

How shall I love the sin yet keep the sense And love the offender yet detest the offence?

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

We could advance the human race enormously if we but learned to communicate honestly with our neighbors.

Acceptance means commitment, among other things.

Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.

As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion