How it is we have so much information, but know so little?

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.

You are going to find that buying the car is much less satisfying than working for it.

The type of person you are is usually reflected in your business. To improve your business, first improve yourself.

There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: (1) the world as a unity dependent on humanity; (2) the world as a reality independent of the human factor.

Horses have made civilization possible.

My soul is possessed by this devil my new name is Rain Man.

Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money.

I feel emptiness, and he probably won't be able to close his eyes for two or three days.

If you wanna find the honey / You can't be scared of the bees.

There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

You know, it doesn’t matter how beautiful you are, if you don’t have anything interesting to say, then you’re still boring.