Sectors of power are not going to favor the flourishing of dissidence.

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.

Everyday I'm inspired to inspire others.

Voting for the Green Party is how you say 'Up Yours!' to the Republicans and Democrats.

You are ... who you are... you can't change that.

Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?

Some 1.2 billion people in the world still have too little to eat

Oh hell." He gasped, his back arching, his balls drawing up painfully tight. "Don't make me come too quickly.

I will say this, I will rely on [Mike ] Pompeo and [James] Mattis and my group.

You know, a lot of the people that are running. We want to go in; we want to have majorities. It's very important.

Bee stings are very educational

I believe that you've got to love your work so much that it is all you want to do.