Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene.

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.

Let us dance in the rain to enjoy the rainbows and to get lost in the beauty of nature.

The continuing belief that the world is fundamentally just is implied in the very complaint that there has been an injustice.

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.

The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace.

I would love when that day comes so I can prove everyone wrong, but in the same time prove to myself I can be the best I can be.

I'm training two-and-a-half hours a day, pushing my body beyond its normal limits, putting on a lot of muscle mass and just making myself look like Superman.

It truly sucks to doubt your friends when you only have one or two of them, I realized.

Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body.

Do not think that your crying and complaints can force Jesus to become sentimental and then give Himself out so cheaply.