Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.

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.

I was kind of tired, I guess, of knowing people are flesh. Flesh and water.

One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.

We don't fall in love, we fall in lust. We ascend to love.

Those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers.

But the biggest fake of the year, Paul Begala's last smile

I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper.

He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

We all have the luxury of looking out for ourselves. Leaders also have the honor of looking out for others.

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.