Whether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology.

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 Christian who rebels against God’s Word is not a Christian at all

The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.

All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.

Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

If you do not see yourselves and all things as living, moving, and having their being in God, you see nothing, whatever you may think you see.

Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention.

That awkward moment when people act like they know your best friend better than you do.

The more you find out about the world economy, the less you may truly know.