Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.

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.

Few moments are so special that they should be recognized by special expressions.

When I kissed you the day I left, I swear to God you stripped me bare.

I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.

Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.

...the moron who thought love was forever.

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.

I enjoy what I do, but it's more challenging than people think.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

The soil is the gift of God to the living.