My proposal happens to be very mainstream.

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.

Life is an adventure in growing up, and when you have lost a lot of people you realize each day is a gift.

To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.

The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself.

That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on.

A person might be able to play without being creative, but he sure can't be creative without playing.

If an image is powerful enough, if it resists us, if, by its obscure coherence, part of it escapes our understanding, then it means that something has been won from reality.

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].

The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must err.