Technologies can be liberating, but it can also be a tool of coercion and control.

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.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

As a techdomme I love to take control of your digital life, your PC and of course that will have REAL LIFE effects and control.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.

The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.

Pause before you get home and prepare your heart. A peaceful heart leads to a peaceful atmosphere.

Global warming threatens the survival of our species.

You are God's child. His creation. Destined for heaven. You are a part of his family.

You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess theory, of chess culture.