There's a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous wealth and a lot of others have no security.

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.

Sunset and evening star And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world but it is opinion that uses the force.

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

I want us to be as good as we say we are and as others think we should be.

Only in Christ are all things in communion. He is the point of convergence of all hearts and beings and therefore the bridge and the shortest way from each to each.

A new invention to poison people ... is not a patentable invention.

Making a video is one of the most exciting things for artists and fans. It's like a payoff.

Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Life isn't about what you get, it's about what you DO with what you get.