Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

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.

...things happen when you least expect them. Things that can change your whole life.

I wish for a life with love and never ending dream.

On days such as this, Death’s long shadow hung like a broken halo over everyone—a sign of things to come.

I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.

In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.

I'm scared of slipping up, of just doing a joke that makes me laugh.

Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.

If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.

I think music sharing of any kind is great.