Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

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.

If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

...how many of us have a moved heart that shies away to a different angle, a millimetre or even less from the place where it first existed, some repositioning unknown to us.

Not to embrace the kingdom values is not to be motivated

Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.

I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.

I don't feel sorry for myself.

I don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to.

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

I like shirts and sweaters that fall off the shoulder or plaid button-ups.