Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.

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.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

Who knows if you’re alive anymore, but better yet, who knows if I’m even alive anymore?

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries.

There's 2 things I love in this world: Burritos and Murder

I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they're almost like a little chive.

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

Dividing into teams doesn't necessarily mean denigrating others. Studies of groupishness have generally found that groups increase in-group love far more than they increase out-group hostility.

I want to crush everyone. I want to outsmart everyone.

The first step is the hardest – making a commitment to yourself, for yourself.