In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.

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.

Misfortunes make us wise

Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance

The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.

All work and no play is not good for the soul

When government is... bailing out banks... we have every good reason to be alarmed.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it. I don't know all the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone.

True love can exist only in freedom from possession.

I'm the gun guy, a loud guitar Dirty Harry with a ponytail.

It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.

The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically.