The most powerful ideologies are not those that prevail against all challengers but those that are never challenged because in their ubiquity they appear as nothing more than the unadorned truth.

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.

You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of property.

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.

The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.

People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.

Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

Apathy's a problem but who cares?

When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

I am an immortal Experiencer. Does that changed my life, no but it changed the way I Experience life.

I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.

Every day is not perfect. You have your bad days and good days just like anyone else. You do not want to talk to people sometimes. It is normal.

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at a performance or during a rehearsal.

Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.

A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.

Benjamin Franklin said it best, 'Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.'

I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.

I consider the Stooges to be pop music.