By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

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.

A joyful mind is a beautiful mind.

Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.

You don’t need to get anyone else to agree with your truth. You just need to live it.

Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.

The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.

Clearly our greatest need is not more regulations in order to merit salvation.

I don't know much about Hitler. Except that last thing, about the Jews. There has never been a country that put its heel down on the Jews that ever lived afterwards.

All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.

You must always aim for further growth.

The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.