You have 30% of the world unemployed, a huge amount of work, that needs to be done just rebuilding the society alone.

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.

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

I think sometimes when you begin to examine things - like yourself - suddenly you can just freak out and not want to go any further.

When I make the effort to pay attention to the sights, sounds and sensations around me, I’m encouraging myself to live in the present moment.

Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes.

People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm.