A democracy barely functions under the neoliberal system.

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.

If it be good to come under the love of God once, surely it is good to keep ourselves there. And yet how reluctant we are!

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

When the ranch is in peace, no other life is more perfect.

There's nothing funnier than getting a death threat via MySpace. Why don't you just write it in a children's birthday card.

Perhaps I am meant to swim in deep waters.... better deep than shallow!

Peter is ... adjusting. He's back in school, and he's doing quite well. I wish you could find it in your heart to forgive him." "I've got this funny resentful streak about people who try to kill me.

The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well.

Of course, with Papaveria Press, you know the book itself is going to be beautiful.

Writing isn't something I do, writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.

He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.