We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders.

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.

Remember, young man, experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher. By reading about the lives of great people, you can unlock the secrets to what made them great.

If the solar winds have stirred far off in the velvety night then showers of light --gold and violet. rose and green--paint the sky.

I was looking at the history of the sport and I couldn't understand why there have been so many good South American drivers, especially Brazilians.

With acting, you might have a month of very intense work, but youve got a lot of downtime as well.

I think when we stop putting labels and start worrying more about the performance, that's when you're able to cross over and make yourself a household name and go everywhere.

The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result of its acquaintance with the things which it investigates.

You have to take risks.

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

Our opinion of people depends less upon what we see in them, than upon what they make us see in ourselves

You're beautiful in your wrath.