It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.

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.

Look at you! You look like Rangeman Barbie. You got a gun and everything.-Lula

Because of dreams, success is worth pursuing. Because of love, life is worth living.

I believe in letting the story speak for itself.

What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?

Real love cannot be silent in the face of injustice.

To say a prayer doesn't take more than a minute, but you need the discipline to do it.

There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.

Becoming wealthy is like playing Monopoly.. the person who can accumulate the most assets wins the game.

I consider myself a Republican.

We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.