I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe.

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 material's out there, a calm lake waiting for us to dive in.

Mankind does not have dominion over the Earth, mankind has a relationship with the Earth.

As actors we try to find different sides of ourselves.

Playing Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like... I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer but I like the way I do it.

Elvis may have fueled rock & roll's imagery, but Chuck Berry was its heartbeat and original mindset.

I love working in TV. TV is fast. You shoot it and it's done quickly.

Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done.

I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master. .

Face your worry and see it as an illusion. It cannot exist unless you give it power and give it life.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.