Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

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.

That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.

As with most things governmental, failure does not mean having to try something else. It means spending more money.

The first person I learned I could make happy with laughter was my mother, whom I idolize. It was a powerful thing to realize. I knew I had found my life's work.

I've been watching Mad Men since day one.

There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm.

You can either be the sickness in your world or you can be the cure.

I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact.

It's going to be very difficult. I don't see the president-elect [Donald Trump] as a legitimate president.

Moses and the crooked snake... that turned into a stuck, that was actually a disintegrator pistol.

True love is an acceptance of someone else for who they are.