If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing?

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.

We have to be willing to acknowledge the good, or all we bring is bitterness to the bad, and that doesn’t help make things any better.

Enjoy the peace of Nature and declutter your inner world.

To kill was to be doomed. To kill was to die, yourself.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

What was freely given to me, I freely give.

I want to do with you what the spring does with the cherry trees.

You just have to keep believing in yourself.