State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.

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.

My jewelry's all fake - from Claire's. Or I get it from my mom's boutique in Barbados.

[S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts.

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.

You must fight social media fire with social media water.

I'm usually the guy who says, 'Bruce Willis and Denzel Washington in the Siege'!

You're The Grinch, Cole! That's why you don't like it.

The old he-coon walks just before the light of day.

I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats; If it be man's work, I'll do't.

When Death doth close his tender dying eyes.