I think there are all kinds of intrusions into private rights that make use of contemporary technology.

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.

Skills and proficiency is the greatest miracle that a man needs.

When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term.

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.

Selling is the easiest job in the world if you work it hard-but the hardest job in the world if you try to work it easy.

No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.

Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine both, and you will have nothing but religion.

A life of rest and peace in God is good; a life of pain lived in patience is still better; but to have peace in a life of pain is best of all.

Actually, being what you are is the simplest. What is difficult is to stop being what you are not.

The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus's tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.