The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

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.

What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

Originality is the best form of rebellion.

(She) didn't believe in resilience. She believed in imagination.

What if there's no town for fifty kilometers?" Said Enoch."The we'll walk for fifty-one kilometers. But I know we weren't blown that far off course.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.

No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.

I do think it's important that we experiment with new vocabularies. That new words help us conceptualize our social existence in a different way.

As an actor, I need to get excited about something that I can actually relate to.