The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

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.

God doesn't work on our timetable. He has a plan that He will execute perfectly and for the highest, greatest good of all, and for His ultimate glory.

This year my goal will be to learn new vocabulary in English and to read as much as possible books.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible not the invisible.

Anybody can say anything they want. Hillary Clinton can control her own campaign.

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.

Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.

Don't be absent from your own life.

When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there.

A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse.

I urge you to continue your fraternal cooperation with one another in the spirit of the community of Christ's disciples, united in your love for him and in the Gospel that you proclaim.