People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be protected.

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've been thinking. You'd better be my bridesmaid, since you gave me the idea that led to this whole farce. It's a horrible job, I'm sure, so you deserve it. Plus, you're my friend. Will you do it?

What a grand thing to be loved! What a grander thing still to lovel

When I left Tinder, I had no intention of getting back into the dating industry. What I ultimately wanted to do was start this contagious complimentary social network, where kindness was at the helm.

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.

I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.

What's so sad is when we're younger, if you have a bad parent, that is normal to you and that's what you think of as healthy.

At night I can write for hours.

In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.

But if you think of all the people who don't like me, just think of all the millions who've never heard of me!