Democracy is a danger to any powerful group.

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.

It is not you as the ego who moves through life, but that life flows before you, and you are the immutable awareness containing it all.

If your paramount concern in life is to make sure everyone likes and approves of you, I’m sorry to say you’re going to find yourself running in circles for the rest of your life.

A real hero doesn't expect to be thanked or even recognized.

The trust that we put in ourselves makes us feel trust in others.

Life was to be a search, or nothing! But it was the fear that it was nothing that drove me forward. Every encounter was an encounter with myself.

It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.

That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.

It is the highest manifestation of the power of Vairagya when it takes away even our attraction towards the qualities.

One of the best indicators of student achievement is the academic success of the mother in the home.