These are questions for action, not speculation, which is idle.

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.

Maybe that's the definition of true contentment: choosing to rest in who God is, regardless of the circumstances.

Sometimes it's the tiniest things that can mean the difference between life and death.

Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.

I actually have a great deal of respect for antidepressants; I think they can be enormously mighty tools toward recovery.

Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?

When you come to expect humor of people, you will never get it.

Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.

I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it.

Who knows why some words ignite the hearts of some readers while others are like wet matches that won't light.