States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

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.

What we ought to know we never be taught in the classroom.

Work until you feel Lamborghini is cheap...!!!

The more I know about people, the more I love zombies.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.

What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?

Trust is fine, but control is better.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

I learned how to become wealthy because I asked the right questions when I was broke.

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.