I don't know what it means to say that 'the internet should have a voice in Washington'.

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.

I can’t control my feelings, but I’m learning to have a say in how much my feelings control me.

"Yes " I answered you last night "No " this morning sir I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death!

We only need to open our eyes to see the gifts that abound all around us. These are the simple joys in life.

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

My first date has been...mythologized as 'Bieber's Dating Disaster.' I took her to a buffet restaurant. Yes, I wore a white shirt. Yes, I got spaghetti.

I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.

It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.