The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

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.

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.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

There’s no better way to serve and nourish the magnificence in another person than to simply listen to them openheartedly and without judgment.

As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.

The opportunity of a lifetime must be grasped within the lifetime of that opportunity.

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.

Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

Latin America and the Caribbean are the happiest on average in the world.

It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.

In the winter, things are dead and dull, but then there is an explosion of life. That's what He promises people who believe in His Son. That's what all the Robertsons are banking on.

Perfection is not to be attained, it is already within us.