The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

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.

It is never too early and never too late to try your best. What you like or what you love will be a great success.

For we know not what we should pray for.

The way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be.

I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.

Smiles are the language of love.

Anything, and I mean anything, becomes a blessing if it drives us to prayer.

Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

Great floods have flown From simple sources.