What can realistically be done depends on the historical moment. The same is true with regard to the agents.

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.

Leaders try every possible means to leave the world better than they found it. They make an indelible impact and society remembers them for that.

South Park started as a little video Christmas card.

You can't have a healthy society unless you have healthy companies that are making a profit, that are employing people and that are growing.

I would love to do a 'Scream'-type movie.

There are so many talented people in film today. There seem to be poor scripts, but the actors and actresses are very talented.

After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.

I love to entertain. And I love the sound of people enjoying themselves.

It's hard to answer that from my own perspective because when I'm playing I know where it is coming from and the sources.

There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.

I should wonder what courage—which is the virtue they most value—has to do with a metal ring through your nostril.