Destruction of the environment is not only rational; it's exactly what you're taught to do in college.

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.

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Look past our kinship, and towards a romantic relationship!

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

God and I have a great relationship but we both see other people.

Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.

The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being.

Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote.

I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.

I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry.