Very urgent measures need to be taken, and without much delay, in dealing with the ongoing destruction of the environment.

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.

If a person is not free, his right is restricted.

We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.

What does it matter if the world is bright and sunny, when it's dark and silent right where it matters most?

It's over and can't be helped and that's one consolation as they always say in Turkey when they cut the wrong man's head off.

In school, I was the quietest girl ever! I had a lot of trouble in school. Kids were mean to me.

Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags and crazy people.

It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.

But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.

Private enterprise in cricket might not be regarded as the last word, and ultimate state direction would not do it any harm.

The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.