In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

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.

May I be awoken by the thunder of Zeus & touched by his lighting. It only need strike once. Once is enough to ignite the soul with purpose.

Silly words, silly words, silly awful hurting words.

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

If your friends won't tell you the truth, who will?

Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.

My name is Luka I live on the second floor. I live upstairs from you, yes, I think you've seen me before.

it is not enough to speak, but to speak truee

They say miracles are past.