You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.

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.

Become your own soulmate. Then you'll always have someone watching your back, and you'll always have someone who loves you.

In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

Often when we ask for advice, we don't really want advice-we want someone to say "That's great! Go for it!"

To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music.

People try to live their lives without consequences and end up living lives of no consequence.

I'm a big eater. I mean, a lot of my stand-up is about food, and you write about what you know, and that's the only thing I know. I don't know anything else.

If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by force of arms.

Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.