I don't entirely agree with the slogan "speaking truth to power."

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.

Seeing your own smallness is called insightHonoring your own tenderness is called strength

Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.

My holidays are very important. Mind you, I take a very long one every year.

Americans will finally wake up in a country where the laws of the United States are enforced!

Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.

Look...it's empty...as empty as a politician's promise!

She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'" "He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.

Shake the hand that feeds you.

The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.

I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just dont understand that world. But I think I do understand individual human harmfulness.