In any case, it is better to have some deal than no deal, but it's interesting that Obama picked the day of implementing of Iran deal to impose new sanctions on North Korea.

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.

Solitude is sanity.

Now, Joyce being Joyce, he has about five different purposes, one not being enough for genius.

she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

The economic illusion is the belief that social justice is bad for economic growth.

Go ahead, do something impossible.

A friend is someone who reaches out for your hand.and touches your heart.