The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

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.

I had an Indian Scout motorcycle during high school, but I never could take it to school. My dad would sneak out at night and pull the spark-plug wires.

I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.

we're anything brighter than even the sun

Death is the last limit of all things.

Homosexuality is death, and I choose life.

Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? No.

It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.

We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.