What is important to us is to reverse the shameful course being pursued by America. It won't be easy, but it must and can be done.

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.

That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day, ...

But only a leper shows its sins to the world.

I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.

If individuals can be born again, why can't cities, made up of many individuals, be born again?

The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.

It's awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship." "It's awful worse luck not to.

Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding.

Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.

History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.