I think there was an overemphasis in the early stage on militarization rather than directly providing relief. I don't think it has any long-term significance.

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.

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

I love engaging with the fans. It's fun.

I don't use my lips. I use my tongue to make - create the vowels.

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

The secret to finding our passion is that we bring passion in everything that we do.

I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

I am not a god of forgiveness. (Acheron)

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.