If North Korea doesn't have a deterrent, they will be wiped out.

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.

The Victorian era was perhaps the last point in Western history when magic and science were allowed to coexist.

Until you stop blaming and become positively self-critical you are not going to move forward.

I could take revenge, i could give pain, But i do not know how to be such a cheapSo hurt to one, i love you more than my life to whom always i speak

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust.

I create easily and effortlessly when I let my thoughts come from the loving space of my own heart.

I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree.

Decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.

You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.