I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with contemporary Hebrew. It's quite difficult.

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 have a RAGING SEA inside of me, trying to break free from ALL of me.

Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it.

...people demonize certain types of crime - it's a way of distancing ourselves from the monsters...

I don't need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don't need any of that.

A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

I cannot tell you how grateful I am - I am filled with humidity.

Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.

From the time I was 8 until now, I've been working. My Social Security is looking solid.

Everything in life has its price.

No man is so great as mankind.