My linguistics is pretty theoretical.

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.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.

The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. [Fr., La faveur des princes n'exclut pas le merite, et ne le suppose pas aussi.]

I do listen to some music, but I don't technically have one band I'm absolutely hooked on.

We're all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.

If you want to hurt me, fine. Take my books. Burn down my house. Shave my head while I am sleeping. But nobody, nobody screws with my dog.

Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine.

I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.

Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.