We're supposed to worship Adam Smith but you're not supposed to read him. That's too dangerous.

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.

Life doesn’t happen to you, but for you. Lessons can be found in everyone’s story.

Did you know that using social media can actually help you to increase your level of thinking?

The less you look to others, the more you find in yourself.What have you found in yourself.

You will never be a leader in any area of your life if you are not a reader in those areas of life.

I love how summer just wraps it’s arms around you like a warm blanky.

You’ll never learn anything or impress anyone by making excuses and diverting blame.

They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.

I'll do almost anything for cake - even trample little children!

If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness.

True humility means total dependence on God for everything.