The United States is the Godfather when it establishes edicts. Others had better live up to them, or else. We have to demonstrate that. So that's what the bombing of Syria was to have demonstrated.

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.

Love her but leave her wild

God not only loves the obedient - He enlightens them.

ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.

The Depression taught me what frugality means and the importance of not losing money.

Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case

In our beginnings lies our journey's end.

Be with those who help your being. Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths.

If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.

The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate them?