Concision is a technique of propaganda. It ensures you cannot do anything except repeat clichés, the standard doctrine, or sound like a lunatic.

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.

Discipline is not a negative word. It comes from the Greek word "to train.

I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.

In the beginning was the image.

Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.

Men without jobs do not form families.

Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves

I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us.

But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway.

Satan could make an "A" in my Systematic Theology course. He knows the information and knows that the information is true.

I'm very happy with the opportunities I've had.