Those of us lucky enough to have a share of privilege in the more free societies should not be asking this question, but doing something to answer it.

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.

I can't walk beside you for reasons of my own, but everytime you cross my mind, I send love to you, you know.

For peace read books, for success read books and take actions.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.

We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.

Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity.

Sometimes it's tough because I've got to sleep 15 hours to sing the way I want to. It's not easy because my vocal chords are different than most people's.

Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.

Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.

So when people ask me if there's another one, I say, "You know, I don't think so, but I don't know, and I kind of don't understand why."