Hamas is a political party and political parties don't recognize other countries.

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.

No other woman had that air of spring in January, that ever-bubbling fount of love and hope.

Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question.

Failure is an opportunity to reflect and realize.

Everything starts with a story.

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.

I’m not playing the race card. I’m playing the rice card.

If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by.

We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.

Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.

Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.