If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

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.

In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely.

Magical since Birth.

You ought to stop everything and write the sacred-words as its flashes in your mind.

To attract people naturally, effortlessly, we need only follow the true prompting of our hearts.

Pain is hard to bear.... But with patience day by day Even this shall pass away.

Don't worry about what you do not understand... Worry about what you do understand in the Bible, but do not live by.

It's only in silence that you can judge of your relationship to a person.

Without Warning Sometimes you're traveling a highway, the only road you've ever known, and wham! A semi comes from nowhere and rolls right over you.

I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.