I do not feel that we should set up PEOPLE as "models"; rather actions, thoughts, principles.

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.

Through life's journey, may your feet rest on solid ground, your hands touch the prize of life, and your heart find contentment.

I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.

I testify that inspiration can be the spring for every person's hope, guidance, and strength. It is one of the magnified treasures of life. It involves coming to the infinite knowledge of God.

If you change your attitude you will change how you see the world and discover the potential it has simply through opening up your eyes to C Differently

I am willing to see things differently. I am willing to see love.

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.

No matter how much you've worked so hard to be as successful as you are, there will always be those ignorant haters who don't understand.

The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

You just try to be nice to everybody and treat them all the same. Treat them how you would want to be treated.