There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.

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.

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and after these the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

If not you, who? If not now, when? The worst thing well-meaning people can do is simply let things remain as they are.

To change what you get, you must change who you are.

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

For me the safety pin is about rebellion, and I'm punk in the soul.

Are you a thinker, a doer, or a clutch player? The better you are, the greater potential for influence you will have with your people.

I feel that true freedom lies within, where I shall never find it.

I traveled into the future to get back in time.

People know where romantic comedies are going. It's not brain surgery to figure out the end of a romantic comedy.

IT don't matter if you win by an inch or a milewinning is winning!!