The developing world voice can be amplified enormously by support from the wealthy and the privileged, otherwise it's very likely to be marginalized.

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.

A man who preserves his integrity no real, long-lasting harm can ever come.

The next day I had a hangover.I realised that if getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.

I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.

No matter how many vitamins you take, how much Pilates, you'll lose your keys, your hair and your memory.

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.

You may be capable of great things, But life consists of small things.

Millions of people have to restore liberty and have to understand the danger and personal risk they face in a police state.

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.