There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.

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.

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

Father, you are asking me to sacrifice the only girl I love so you can openly have the woman you love.

No, Karl, not now. Take it easy. It’s our happy day.”Poul-Erik’s MotherThe Informer by Steen Langstrup

People in the West are always getting ready to live.

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

I don't like the idea that the government has so much of a say in things.

To me, it's all about inspiration. What gets me creatively excited is a challenge.

Shift the focus from what you want to do, to how you want to be... how you want to feel.

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful and the ennobling in man.

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.