No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.

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.

The easy assumption that we have remembered the most important people and events and have preserved the most valuable evidence is immediately trumped by our inability to know what we have forgotten.

Before building any relationship, think on how your partner could be the best companion to you in achieving your life’s earnest goals

I have sadness in me. I have anger in me. I have heartbreak in me.

I'm not trying to fit in with nobody. I'm just me.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

There is an order to our environment, a broader order.

Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player.

I say every dog looks like no other but that isn't true. Not entirely. Difference is slippery.

Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.

Cast a spell and the small flaws don't matter. (From Workbook)