The best defense against democracy is to distract people.

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.

Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country.

[Y]ou cannot determine either the truth or the right or wrong of anything with a poll. You can only tabulate people's opinions.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the dog's owner - and the distance you are from your car.

That Bible is read best, which is practised most.

You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,’I am here, I am here, I am here.

Andrea Leadsom flatly denies she has changed her CV.

Liberals hate corporations, folks. Corporations are not people.

She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.

Pick the right sized pot, don't pick a pot five times bigger, twice as big.

I never want to be playing the same thing, even season to season.