That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

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.

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.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.

I've eaten weird things through the course of my life. I've eaten wild game, I've eaten possum - possum's no good.

When we deal with the name and reputation of another we deal with something sacred in the sight of the Lord.

I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any conflict with any directors because I know they're the boss.

Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them.

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate.

We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.

In science, if an idea is not falsifiable, it is not that it is wrong, it is that we cannot determine if it is wrong, and thus it is not even wrong.

We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside.