The US is the wrecking machine that is destroying everything. The world is hoping that China will somehow come to the rescue.

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.

It is not possible to know ‘Who am I?’ by ‘doing’. ‘Doing’ (anything), requires egoism, and where there is egoism, ‘Who am I’ cannot be known.

To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn't crave for anything apart from your own thing.

Just because your feet are on the ground, doesn't mean you weren't born to fly.

When our attention is on the present, our life is constantly renewed.

Mr. Brooks and I have been friends forever. He is in seventh heaven with his new success on Broadway.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

We've witnessed history in the making.

I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

Time be thine, And thy best graces spend it at thy will.