It's fine to criticize somebody else's crimes and misdeeds, but you don't talk about your own. The only exception is a country that is defeated. And even that is rather nuanced.

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.

Don't be afraid! Hold my hand and let's jump off that cliff together.

Give a man a proverb

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.

I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.

But the past couple of days I’ve missed you so much it’s felt like missing you is all I am.

I am against lying, but just because someone asks a question does not mean you have to answer it.

Too many of us never understand what we owe to our dear ones until there remains no further opportunity of paying love's debt.

People can travel great distances on a computer, so why can't we travel that way emotionally?

You're afraid of heights,'I say. 'How do you survive in the Dauntless compound?' 'I ignore my fear,' he (Four) says. 'When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist.

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?