Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

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.

Nobody knows you.You don't know yourself.And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with?My own imaginings?

Imagine the feeling of catching yourself loving yourself without trying. It's like catching a sunset out of the corner of your eye. It will stop you.

The Bible teaches that you have three enemies . . . the devil . . . the world . . . the flesh.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

My brands are an extension of me. They're close to me. It's not like running GM, where there's no emotional attachment.

The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution damned by God Almighty.

The caricature of my own face always makes me laugh.

Sometimes its good to come back when you least expect to.

Women are great bullsh*t detectors. They know when it's not real.

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.