People are capable of seeing the deceit they're ensnared in. They just have to make the effort.

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.

With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.

With nothing to risk, love can't exist.

Part of obedience to the Golden Rule is knowing how to respond once you've behaved in an unloving way.

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

I think that, for sure, we as women should try and realize that it's more about having someone to share.

Open yourself to the changes; you can then create many different beauties like the skies do!

Knowledge is potential power. It transforms itself into actual power the moment you decisively act on it.

I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis.

The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that Finis vitae sed non amoris, is a lie, useless and not even funny.

And I'm also looking for a comeback record and it has to touch a lot of people.