Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

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.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world.

Believe that life is taking you down a wonderful path!

Reading great books always gives me the worst sleeping disorders.

Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.

Everything that happens is determined by God.

He has not truly lived who has not lived for others, in sympathy and in harmony with his fellows.