Organization and education, when they interact with each other, they strengthen each other, they are mutually supportive.

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.

Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.

...anger is a waste of energy. Steam which is used to blow off a safety valve would be better used to drive an engine.

My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her.

We need not fear the judgement of history. Who, after all, speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians?

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book

Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.

Service is the ultimate edge. Keep it sharp.

The musings are the same I believe the fire to create burns so heavily that I am never far from a guitar or a fountain pen.

Just because someone is very charismatic, it doesn't mean that they're genuinely qualified.