Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

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.

Forgive everyone. Forgive every misery and misfortune with love.

All of it seems like noise and false light, and all I want for tonight is quiet, the black and gray of a summer night, and a girl in a pink dress, beside me forever.

First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.

But the universe is infinite.

Theres nothing more intoxicating than doing big, bold things.

Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.

Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.

I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was stupid.

My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.

No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart; Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given.