Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

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 wiser to love who you are than what you want.

We cannot inherit Christianity . . . God has no grandchildren.

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.

As a woman I resent the fact that in golf if I have the highest score I'm the loser.

With a sketch show, it's "a bunch of people and they're being funny." In a way that you can't really explain it.

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

I'm very mechanical, so if I have one thing that's going in the wrong direction when I'm hitting, it's hard for me to get a hit.

House Speaker John Boehner says President Obama should have clearly outlined his exact plans before bombing Libya. Apparently it's only Iraq where you don't have to do that.

There are people in New York who feel I should have more of a hometown approach. I feel we have to be a mirror and reflect whats happening on the court.

It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.