The Republican establishment, the mainstream corporate financial wealth, is getting to a point where it can't control the base it's mobilized.

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.

Leaders don't walk in front, nor do they walk behind. They walk on completely different paths on the journey of intuition. The road that has never been taken. And so they lead.

People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence

Opportunities that always fail need change

All I was trying to do when they caught me was bury my mother in an unmarked grave.

I never knew modelling was what I wanted to do. I was just meandering through life having fun, having a laugh with my friends.

I'm not super-athletic.

Make no mistake about it. The first man who will walk on the moon has already been born. I hope in America.

When you accept yourself, the Universe accepts you.

I don't really ever worry about what anyone else does and I certainly don't worry about what anyone else says about me.

Don't you get it? We are The Walking Dead!