Today's Democrats are pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans a generation ago.

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.

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work

Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.

I'd like to lose interest in myself.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

And there's always a better time than right now and there always will be. But right now is what we've got.

Some part of a mistake is always correct

I'm hungry. I want the ball. That's the feeling you want. When you get that feeling, you can't be stopped.

Study your lessons, don't settle for less.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

There's nothing so freeing as going to rehearsal and having that experience.