What was the invasion of South Vietnam, for example, in 1962, when Kennedy sent the Air Force to bomb South Vietnam and start chemical warfare? That's aggression.

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.

The world is a dangerous place, but there is no better world. Remember every one of us is responsible to make the world a joyful place.

The challenge is to draw on the past but not be bound by it" p. 20

Knowledge is power is time is money. Meaning that if I shared knowledge, it would tantamount to sharing power or money.

When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

I had a hollow leg. I could drink everyone under the table and not get drunk. My capacity was terrifying.

Footballers nowadays are controlling their image through their own Facebook page so its not the club that controls them anymore, they do what they want at anytime.

I'm OCD beyond comparison.

Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.