The worst drug of all by far is tobacco; the death toll from tobacco is just overwhelming.

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.

Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.

It is not how many times we get lost, but how many times we seek the path, again and again, that determines our level of consciousness.

Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it.

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

I'm a fighter through and through. I don't fear any person and to go inside that ring with a feared mentality, why even go inside the ring?

Sorry, honey, but I haven't worn a nightgown in years.

Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.

Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.

Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.