It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

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.

If you see success as a race, then you will start eagerly with enthusiasm and passion with the hope of finishing quickly but there is much more to your success journey than your duration and speed.

Let whoever wants to, relax in the south, And bask in the garden of paradise.Here is the essence of north—and it's autumnI've chosen as this year's friend.

I've never been comfortable photographing people I know, myself included. I guess I prefer the mystery of strangers.

There's probably no God. So stop worrying and enjoy your life.

Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy.

We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.

I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.

Is it music? ... This is not the important question. The important question is, is it interesting?

He leaned down and whispered to me: No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath. And he let go of my arm and walked back down the hall.

In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.