US wars are going to be against much weaker enemies. And they have to be won quickly and decisively before a popular reaction develops.

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.

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

Nights without work I spent with whisky and books.

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.

I believe in the perfect outcome of every situation in my life.

I’m a Southern girl. I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I’m really into a man’s man.

The hard work is done. The training is done. I'm not gonna say too much.

Every time something tries to create respect with a machine it crumbles!

In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead

There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the particular form required by your creation.

Many store the Bible on their shelves; the best store it in their hearts.