We should not be speaking to, but with. That is second nature to any good teacher.

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.

When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.

A grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

I'm not the Carter who'll never tell a lie.

Developing confidence is like watching the sun rise. First it seems very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. Then it shines and shines.

We have the words in our pockets, obscure directions. The old ones have taken away the light of their presence.

God gives all God asks all

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.

I think the point that we all agree upon is that we have to engage with Russia.

It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.