As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight.

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.

Armour belonging to someone else either chops off you or weighs you down or is too tight

Patriotism is dangerous, but kindness is always kind.

Standing in our power requires us to let go of the need to make others like us & instead stand committed to honoring ourselves.

Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.

The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.

Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose

Obviously, success breeds more confidence. And it's pretty easy to be confident if you're getting a hit almost every time at bat.