In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

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.

Your life is too short to cry over the misgivings of others.Embrace the loves you have and have had and smile another day.

I don't like to do much with my hair - which is good, because I don't know how! I just always make sure I have a great haircut.

There's definitely ways to get your anger out and not have to yell and kick and scream and fight people. That's not my jam. That's never how I've been.

I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Independent, but I caucus with the Democrats.

I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.

I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.

I may not be the most patient woman in the world, or the most glamorous, or the most athletic, but I'm right up there at the top of the line when it comes to resiliency.

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

The chaotic theory of education is that you go to college, earn a degree and then that degree may be used in something completely different. It's about achieving the goal first.

Don't get married to an actress, because they're also actresses in bed.