I don't say you're self-censoring - I'm sure you believe everything you're saying; but what I'm saying is, if you believed something different, you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting.

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.

Some people make things happen. Some people watch things happen. And then there are those who wonder, 'What the hell just happened?

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

I'd like to be more approachable, not less weird

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

In spite of the fact that at times I would challenge parents authority. They provided unconditional love.

The more trouble you get a man into, the more comedy you get out of him.

I try to keep that quiet unless it is asked but yeah, I have a girlfriend and she is a great girl

I describe my music as a mix of juices - Tropicana orange juice and a little bit of off-brand pineapple juice. I guess you could call it generic-brand pineapple-wave.

When I'm about Rick James, it's all about get out there and kill 'em.