In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the times.

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.

The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to Him

Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.

An oldtimer is a person who's had many interesting experiences, some of them true.

The ones who love us never really leave us, you can always find them in here.' - Sirius Black

Whether you like another bands music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us.

Without inner change there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.

You can't tell your best buddy that you love him.

Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.

I was the darkest skinned person in my family. I remember how I used to feel - like I wasn't pretty enough, or I wasn't good enough.

Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.