Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled.

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.

Never chase a person that doesn't know your worth because the moment you catch him you will always feel you were never good enough.

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.

For me, touring is about looking after myself.

That old berk," muttered Aberforth, taking another swig of mead. "Thought the sun shone out of my brother's every orifice, he did.

I like a lot of wheels. If I could have eight wheels, I would.

All that is unfair, offends us if it's not beneficial for us

Love is the strongest medicine. It is more powerful than electricity.

You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too. (191)

Success is getting to a point where you'd be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over.