I know of people whose actions and words I admire and respect. Some are called "intellectuals," some are not.

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.

For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.

That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.

...humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.

Years were wasted trying to make him feel better. I never stopped to see if I felt appreciated.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Health and fitness is who I am. It's what I do.

And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.

He has learned that God uses solitude to teach us how to live with other people.

We can't let others judge information for us.

Political leaders have to withstand headwinds.