The principle of universality is not a 'theory'. Just moral truism.

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.

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I like me as an actor.

The market is in the process of correcting itself.

The number of neurons in the brain is very much larger than the number of components in a computer.

Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.

Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.

Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.

I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.

We invent our technologies and then we turn around and use our technologies to reinvent ourselves as individuals, communities and cultures.

I have somewhat [Taylor's or Gallagher's guitars], but I like the power of the Martins.