In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second World War.

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.

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascendThe brightest heaven of invention!

If you want to change the world, just change yourself. The world needs traitors.

When you carry someone else's baggage, it's nearly impossible to get rid of your own. Drop it. Now.

Their dark skin, their gender, their economic status--none of those were acceptable excuses for not giving the fullest rein to their imaginations and ambitions.

Better slip with foot than tongue.

Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection between flexibility and enlightenment.

Our greatest resource is the human resource.

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.