California is maybe the richest place in the world. They're destroying the best public education system in the world.

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.

Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)

The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially

Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have.

My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

Out of the darkness comes light like a flash You think you can, you think you can Sometimes that is the problem Dream little darling dream

Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.

Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to your mind.

Conservatives are much more comfortable supporting the leader who's in power than liberals.

We live in a society where manhood is all about conquering and violence. And what we don't realize is that ultimately that kind of manhood ultimately kills you.

It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.