I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they would be utterly appalled.

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.

When we develop our ability to love in one realm, we simultaneously nourish our ability in others, as long as we remain open to the flow of insight and compassion.

And the Earth Becomes my ThroneI adapt to the UnknownUnder Wandering Stars I've grownI ask no one.

I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it's like out there.

I don't recall being excited about a new rapper, ever.

How do you know you have a servant's heart? Look at your reaction when you are treated like one.

It is simply unthinkable that we will ever again send overseas a great expeditionary force of armed men.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

Meet your fears with faith.

Be who you are and I'll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story.

If fate is a millstone, we are the grist. There is nothing we can do. So I wish for strength. If I cannot protect them from the wheel,then give me a strong blade, and enough strength, to shatter fate