The United States is a very insular society. Most people know very little about the outside world and don't care that much. They're concerned with their own affairs.

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.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.

You only can get out of our challenges by changing yourself. Change comes from within... a greater passion, a greater commitment, and a greater life. you can begin today.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but it is up to the author to write those thousand words. – Richard Petracca

I tan the easy way. I just wait for my liver spots to connect.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

Surrender is the most difficult thing in the world while you are doing it and the easiest when it is done.

If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.

Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

The single greatest moment of my life happened in Toronto, Canada!

How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!