Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you'll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber.

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 gracious moment a given time.

The rare female scientist was depicted as masculine, coarse, ugly, careworn and industrious but making no significant contribution.

Trust compared to a valuable stone that has been shattered, cannot be restored to its original form.

Everyone only goes around the track once in life and if you don't enjoy that trip it's pretty pathetic.

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

All the shitty stuff people do to themselves... it can all be the same thing, you know? Just a way to drown out your own voice. To kill your memories without having to kill yourself.

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.

I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.

A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.