I'm into eating as little as possible... I never cook. Never use the stove or anything.

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.

Future will forgive us but are you ready to forgive your past?

Was he leaving home, or going home?

Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.

You will only sacrifice when you passionately believe in the outcome.

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

No role in life is more important than to be a good mother.

I don't want to get into political mudslinging.

People tend to rally around power.

In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.

There is nobody in the world that you can't get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You've got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.