The ritual denunciation of the so-called ‘socialist’ states is replete with distortions and often outright lies.

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 am dead man alive.

All this timeI drank you like the cure when maybeyou were the poison.

The human mind is the most unreliable things in the universe. So control it.

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

Outstanding beauty like outstanding gifts of any kind tends to get in the way of normal emotional development and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.

I want to make the programs very strong.

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

AIDS is the leprosy of the 21st Century. Where did Jesus hang out? With lepers. Jesus would love on people with AIDS.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.