We live in this world, not another one that we'd prefer, and sometimes it's necessary to follow painful paths if we hope to provide at least a little help for suffering people.

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.

Love yourself, even a little bit each day, and your life will bloom into infinite joy.

We all start out equal, little blobs of blood and muscle. It’s a set-up of awesome potential.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.

Love, come and get it, it's free.

The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.

It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.

We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.

Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.

It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.