Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history.

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.

They were with him, and for that little while the darkness was kind.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious.

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race or people, barbaric or civilized

I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.

We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.

Acting can be the healthiest profession in the world, because it allows you to do things you can't do in real life. It allows you to understand more than just what life provides you.