Ontological questions are generally beside the point, hardly more than a form of harassment.

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.

You tend to become that, what you want most. Expect the best and give it your best. Make success happen.

I think some people just don't know that much about comedy. It would be like a person who didn't know anything about football thinking all offensive linemen are the same.

What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?

Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.

Admit nothing - that was his first rule. Appeal to logic - second rule. Delay the inevitable - third rule.

Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation!

Contrails are denser and block sunlight much more than natural cirrus clouds.

Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.

It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.

When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it and you say, "I'll take it."