They, students have a degree of freedom that nobody else has.

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.

Let me kiss you and take your breath away, we'll worry about resuscitating you later.

A happy man doesn't reconsider life.

There are no failures. There are only experiences and our reactions to them.

Your body is the house you grew up in. How dare you try to burn it to the ground.

Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control.

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort.

On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.

(About a cookbook...) - What about this one? Maids of Honor? - Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor...but they ends up Tarts.

We're living in an increasingly nationalistic, xenophobic time, and you can see it reflected in societies all over the world.