Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy.

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 God created us in his own image, we have more than reciproc

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it.

There's something I find very satisfying about a nice ironic twist.

Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.

The kingdom of heaven is closer than the brow above the eye but mankind does not see it.

Life without Liberty is far worse than death.

One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.

Stars have their moments then they die.

The challenge is to write about real things magically.