WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor.

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 writer concocts a different story for every reader.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.

Hard-ons don't make you think less. They make you think stupid.

when the democrats choose not to be democratic, democracy fails to be democratic.

If you truly want to be successful, spend less time following the lives of other people and more time leading your own.

A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.

Looks aren't all there is in the world, my lady. They are certainly no protection against being alone. Hearts never see through the eyes. (Sebastian)

Once in a while you have to bite the hand that reads you.

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.