Palestinians have no wealth or power.

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.

In life, never talk about problems. Talk about solutions.

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

Patience is seeking help only from Allah.

Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.

My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minute in tenth-rate thinking.

When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead.

All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers.

Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?"