You have to love that government, but hate the government that might work in your interest and that you could control. That's an interesting propaganda task, but it's been carried out very well.

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.

Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.

And there’s been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. That’s something that we intend to fix this.

Don't take life too seriously Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit Laugh at it

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

What exactly are the ingredients of Ranch dressing? Mayo and disappointment?

Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage.

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

The shadows of Ina-Karekh are the place where nightmares dwell, but not their source. Never forget: the shadowlands are not elsewhere. We create them. They are within.

Do what you are best at and let others take care of the rest.

I was a surfer so I hung out with people who were surfers and made fun of people who weren't surfers and I listened to surf music and made fun of people who didn't listen to surfer music.