We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart than stupid.

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.

A true thing, poorly expressed, is a lie.

I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything.-Til We Have Faces

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

Nevada has a very dynamic economy, with gambling being the number-one industry, followed closely by blood donorship.

Above all, I regret that scientific experiments-some of them mine-should have produced such a terrible weapon as the hydrogen bomb. Regret, with all my soul, but not guilt.

It's just a matter of getting those legs back.

And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.

This [climate change] is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly. Do we want to play Russian roulette with two bullets or one?

Make the work you are doing today better than the work you did yesterday.