Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.

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.

Education is not only filling the mind with knowledge, but it is igniting the candle that enlightens the mind.

...thinking about laughing with 2 yr old Findlay today - Dostoyevsky was right, “The soul is healed by being with children.” ...

If you want experiences to make you a better person, then you play two or three sports.

There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.

A gourmet knows that the best part is not always the expensive part, and he will find that part, and then he will share it. A gourmet should want to share.

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.

It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.

I never learned to count my blessings I choose instead to dwell in my disasters

Do your duty and think about God all day from morning to evening. See everything as God.