Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

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.

Don’t be disheartened by the forces of evil. Nothing can happen that God hasn’t allowed. Even resistance is all part of grand orchestration. The devil always has you right were God wants you.

I think maybe Hell is a place. But you don't have to stay anywhere forever.

If you like to live an abundant life, express joy and gratitude for what you have.

When positioning a brand, aggressively avoid becoming a "me too" by assertively being a "who else?

McCain is the most unifying figure in the Senate. Barack Obama is so far left. Turning to her co-host, Joy Behar, an Obama supporter, she said: Do you want some more Barack Obama Kool-Aid, or what?

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them.

I don't think anyone ever liked to play more than I did.

She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.