Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes 'Jew' and 'Gypsy.'

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.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Apart from direct mistakes, there is nothing more ruinous than routine play, the aim of which is mechanical development.

I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.

Today, as chief Of the guardians of the seas Of the land of the dawn, I gaze up with awe At the rising sun!

When our needs are permitted to grow to an extremity, and all visible hopes fail, then to have relief given wonderfully enhances the price of such a mercy

The world is changing, and the Internet is about to become the next broadcast network.

We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.

What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.