Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow.

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.

When someone achieves higher consciousness, he or she never dies. They only transform.

I try to hook you up every day. What's the point of calendars without dates?

Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

Much of God's will for your life is already found in the Bible.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example.

To a child all weather is cold.

When I was a kid I was always afraid of small dogs, because they always seemed like the ones that would attack.

[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy

Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States.