The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

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.

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

Be bold in mind, in spirit and in faith.

Thankfulness is the life of contentment.

There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.

The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.

Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

Everybody in St. Louis, every kid in St. Louis, wanted to be Stan Musial. He was the best.

Don't think you have to be solemn to meditate. To meditate, well, you have to smile a lot.