Workers in different countries can easily be played off against each other.

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.

Greatness like every other product is bought with the currency of time.

How could we change the way we think? Through renewed knowledge.

Best fights happens in suits.because its the mouth who kills while suits becomes the shields & its not the death we fear but the life we choose.

Here at the quiet limit of the world.

Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.

Be careful how you talk about God. He's the only God we have. If you let him go he won't come back. He won't even look back over his shoulder. And then what will you do?

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

The work of the artist is to heal the soul.

Jeff knew full well what he was walking away from. Again, he needed to deal with this right away.