The United States is off the international spectrum in religious extremism.

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.

If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.

God's demand: 'be righteous'

In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.

...for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.

Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.

Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere.

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

I'm trying to build an empire, because after this, I cannot get a normal job

The hand is quicker than the eye is, but somewhat slower than the fly is.

To me, style is all about expressing your individuality freely and courageously.