Unless that happens, unless you get, you know, kind of integration of activists' concerns and movements, it will be, each one will be 'preaching to the choir'.

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.

Some find freedom in comfortothers find comfort in freedom

Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy.

Every one is as God made him and often a great deal worse.

The public has a taste for supping with the great.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

You might be a redneck if going to the bathroom involves shoes and a flashlight.

I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.

Mainly we obsess on fixing or pacifying the mind. I simply ask you to observe it from a place of neutrality.

The stability we cannot find in the world, we must create within our own persons.

My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder.