Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

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.

philosophy is not suited for the masses, what they need is holiness.

When you change yourself, you inspire others, and this inspiration changes the world.

Twitter, " said Manny, waving his hand. "You know what that is? Termites with microphones.

Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Write it down today, put it away, make sense of it tomorrow.

The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.

The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

Sports are not about awards or world championships, though those are great. They're about the relationships we have with each other.

I feel like every role you take, there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it.