The only way we can put a permanent end to terrorism is to stop participating in it.

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.

You are so beautiful and bright. I can only see you in my dreams. When I open my eyes, you vanish into the sky.

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.

The fact that God gave the whole human race the earth to use and enjoy cannot indeed in any manner serve as an objection against private possessions.

We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.

I believe that change keeps you young.

You cannot create a market that doesn't want to exist.

What the hell am I doing here?

On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.

The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit - a spirit that demands self-expression .