Maybe the science is uncertain, maybe we don't have to worry about it. Climate change is the worst, but there's others.

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.

Old loves are dropped when new ones come

I just feel that the only power I have is setting a good example.

The only legacy I want is to be thought of as a winner.

It was great growing up a nomad. To this day I still love hiking and back packing.

Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet

You must be a fundamentalist to be really successful in the market.

Quantitative methods are no more synonymous with objectivity than qualitative methods are synonymous with subjectivity.

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized.