For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination.

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.

Wouldn’t this old world be better If the folks we meet would say: ‘I know something good about you, ’ And then treat us that way?

Maybe that’s what makes it so hard. When you spend years thinking and dreaming about someone and have them fall back into your life? Sounds like fate to me.

Maturity doesn't mean you stop fighting, you just change the things you fight for.

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

Out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion amalgamation.

After 'Bridesmaids,' women know who I am.

Every child has his own beauty, her own talents. Ikarus Jackson can fly through the air; I want kids to find their own set of wings and soar with him.

I think that deep in our hearts we know that our comforts, our conveniences are at the expense of other people.

I can guide you if you feel blind, I just need you to be willing to journey into my ILL Mind.

Generally speaking, we can and should say everything. We just have to choose the right time, otherwise the truth can be worse than a lie.