My position is that we should not succumb to irrational belief.

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.

Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man.

If you're thinking about it, then stop. Because it could be the reason you're having a tough day.

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

A man once said when the legend gets bigger than the man, you've lost the man and you have an unrealistic picture.

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.

In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.

Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.