In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

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 sword of the scripture.

To end the greatest work designed, A thousand hands need but one mind.

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain

One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.

When you freely express, you are the total style.

I don't like acting and I never have liked acting and I never wanted to be an actress.

The ball goes down the keeper's throat where it hits him on the knees to say the least.

I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

i can nourish myself on nothing but truth

There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie.