If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

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.

Every honest prayer is saved in God´s cloud.

The decisions of citizens either in matters of private business or political life of the nation, are directly related to the prevailing value system of the nation

And she had been in love enough times to rule out the possibility that this was merely some feat of nostalgia.

Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

The way I see it, gold is headed over $1000 an ounce, probably much higher. At anywhere near current prices, it's the lowest risk, highest potential investment I can think of.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford.

I think you're not really teaching anyone unless you're learning yourself.

Lyrical lecture, word architecture, Rap director, the best in my sector. Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech... I get nasty with a pen and some loose leaf.