It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state.

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.

As well as remembering too little, I have seen too much

I don't want to be entertained. I don't want visuals or musicals. I don't want a vacation. I don't want to quit. I don't want sympathy. The cry of my heart is 'Just Give Me Jesus.'

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I'm in awe of her.

The Internet was supposed to be the great equalizer.

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.

There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.

Independence is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it.

Adore God, abhor sin.

Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.