Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.

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.

A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.

You're the best in me!

Give them back! Give my tears back, right now——with interest!!

You're who you are and if people don't like who you are, all they're going to get is who you are.

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

I fail all the time, but we are all just human and imperfect, but you know what's best for you, so follow your gut. That's probably my biggest life lesson, follow your gut.

We reach our best, and we do our best, we are at our best in a love atmosphere.

Small, short-sighted, blonde, barbed - she reminds me of a bright little hedgehog.

Hopefully I can be a good light in the hockey world and promote faith as something that's really real.

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.