We have to be irrational and vindictive, because that's going to frighten people. And we have to maintain this for years. And then we'll be able to carry out the actions that we want to carry out.

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.

Bitter love is better than sweet hate.

Believe in yourself. Determined to pursue your goals.

Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only.

Don't let other people's opinions distort your reality. Be true to yourself. Be bold in pursuing your dreams. Be unapologetically you!

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.

He who is unable to spend a long time together in prayer, should often lift up his mind to God by short prayers.

We are at our best when we help the weakest. The weak make us strong.

He's a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it.

What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.