Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

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.

Kindness is the way you live your life every day.

Why am I fixated on that man? I don't want to realise that now. That I want him to love me. I want him to love me. I want him to love me so much I could die.

True happiness that stands the taste of time comes by recognizing and appreciating what we do possess.

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

The reality is, there's still so much we haven't yet figured out. There's still so much stuff that has not been made more, frankly, efficient.

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

It always amazes me when I see young people with raw talent and passion.

The challenge before us is to savor the unknown and delight in the taste of possibility.

There is no moment more precious than the exact moment they are living. And that exact moment has a lot to do with how future moments play out.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.