A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.

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.

We're not mad, " he began, meaning he was. He was always a plural when mad, as though grammatically throwing his lot in with her mother gave him the power of her authority.

I floor the gas pedal. The Sonoramic Commando V-8 growls like an angry tiger and leapfrogs us ahead of the traffic.

Today at the beach I could feel the men dressing me with their eyes.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Well, human security is a concept that I am very committed to enshrining in American foreign policy.

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.

Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'.

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.