Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

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 will find you.In the farthest corner, I will find you.

Real change is slow, hard, and imperceptible.

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.

When men in secular life, who might be religious or not, see women being treated as secondary in the eyes of God, they assume that it's OK for them to do it.

Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones.

The problem when you edit a film together, when you shoot a film, you are drawn into the moment. You want each moment to be special and full of life.

[First line] “The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.

Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.

I would love to be in the position where the role is challenging enough that I need three months to prepare for it and then six months to live the life of character.