In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes instantly, with approval.

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.

Do all you have agreed to do, and do not encroach on other persons or their property.

There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

I have to walk dogs." "Oh," Gansey replied, sounding deflated. "Well, okay." "But it'll only take an hour." "Oh," he repeated, about fourteen shades brighter. "Shall I pick you up, then?

For the recuperation of body and mind, there is nothing better than natural therapy - sand, sunshine and surf.

It is quite clear that history will record that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister this country has had since Churchill.

Madonna created a monster that sucks up souls.

I don't actually like dates. I get awkward as I never know what to do.