There are many cases around the world in which the presence of UN peace-keeping forces has had a somewhat beneficial effect.

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.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

I don't think that Donald Trump is a racist.

Smile...it makes people wonder what you're up to.

I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books.

We cannot continue doing the same thing and expect different results

When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.

I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.

I love women. I worship women. Don’t want to be any other woman but myself.