People who don't accept that doctrinal system, they may try to survive in the media, but they are unlikely to.

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.

Diplomacy in leadership is winning the war on behalf of both sides

It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Your mind will always try to complete what it pictures, so always picture success no matter haw badly things are going at the moment.

My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.

I can't control if people like me; I can't control if people like my game.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.

No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.

I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult.

Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.