Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.

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 all have a "Life Résumé" and regret should not be part of it. Those embarrassing FML moments are all considered experience.

We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?

Knowledge and action combined can win over any adversity known to man.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.

A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.