The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.

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.

Look forward to be a learner. The leader comes along.

Some people take offense like it's a limited time offer.

On the Sivaratri day after performing the routine, the devotee shall go to the temple of Siva and perform worship.

Don't change just so people will like you! Like yourself and your relationships will change. There are people who will love you for - YOU.

Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened.

Intelligence can be used to manipulate.

When you need advice- do you seek someone who has proven success or do you get advice from people who have never achieved what you desire?

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

I moved with my mom to Los Angeles for her to pursue her acting career, and she got a job casting atmosphere in some independent films.

Hegemony is as old as mankind.