We're now in a situation in which Capital is highly mobile and Labour is basically immobile.

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 flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world

Love is all there is, it makes the world go 'round Love and only love, it can't be denied No matter what you think about it You just won't be able to do without it Take a tip from one who's tried

I still have nightmares about taking tests.

What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.

It's terrifying to show incomplete footage.

If you think that you are less than them, can you blame them for thinking they are better?

California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.

What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!” Percy had no intention of doing that.

In any democratic country you have more than one view.

It's always the script that's going to lure me. And I don't really care about the part.