The United States is going to continue to punish Iran because of its defiance.

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.

Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The truth is quite messy, like a wind blown room.

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Make happiness your ultimatum goal in life, and only then you will live an inspired life. Ana Maria Frith, Limitless Change Your Life

When people are depending on us, we end up finding strength we didn't know we had.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

I love a bright lip with a neutral eye. Its an easy, wearable look that gives brightness to your face without looking over-the-top.

Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.

The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.

The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.