Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show.

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 live in love is my life’s purpose.

Life is short. Jingle your bells.

It is always a great honor to be the driver of your own car, to be the boss of your own fate!

Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!

Politics is cyclical.

North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.

Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential.

And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.