The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime.

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.

Have faith in the future and accept your fate.

Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel.

The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union

If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to tell it.

We have hands

Golf is like a love affair: if you don't take it seriously it's no fun if you do take it seriously it breaks your heart.

The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.

Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.

Music's been part of my entire life. It's in my DNA.

The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform.