The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was.

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.

Only the Truth of God can redeem humankind.

The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.

When our sensitivity to feel pain decreases, so does our sensitivity to feel joy with it.

Your life can only be as good or as bad as you frequently interpret it to be.

Imagine a sunset, lavender and red / as battered morals . . .

I always wanted to make movies no matter what. It's true. No matter how I was getting to do it, that's what I wanted to do.

From Jewish terrorism against Arabs it is a short step to Jewish terrorism against Jews.

When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.

You don't deliberately submit people you love to something like that. I don't think I'd run again for vice-president. Next time I'd run for president.

The first thing to understand about working with children's dreams is that adults need to listen up.