Labor #‎ Unions are the leading force for #‎ democratization and #‎ progress .

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.

I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.

Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.

Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream.

I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each other when we play.

...that's not why we broke up. I love it, I miss it, I hate to give it back to you, this complicated thing, it's why we stayed together

In my career, whether it's a big or a small movie, when I've worked on something for a long time, like [Ivan] Drago in Rocky IV, they start to take on a life of their own.

The one who is conscious (in Tao) can't speak. The one who can speak is not conscious (centered in Tao)

People first. Dogs second. Things last.

A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection.

Honestly, Ive been very blessed. Yes, I am cursed with this gift.