Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable.

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.

The spiritual cares for everything.

Love never could be overdone or go out of style.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.

Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.

You exist in the minds of other people.

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.

I owe all my success to stupidity.

Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.