After all, the internet originated around 1960 and wasn't privatized until 1995. That's thirty five years in the public domain during the hard, creative development period.

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 gamble with your life because there is no wealth without life, but where there is life, there is always hope for wealth.

Real love ought to be more like a tree and less like a flower.

When you don't know what to do, do something. I know you don't know what to do and I know you can't do everything right now, but you can do something.

Rich people have the potential to reach a point where they see money as the source of their safety and security.

America is not just a country, it's an idea.

In the end, democratic societies are stronger and more resilient than any autocracy. And more adaptable too.

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

You are the world's greatest, when you say you are.

From my perspective, God cannot be completely contained within nature, and therefore God's existence is outside of science's ability to really weigh in.

Good parenting give headaches but bad parenting gives heartaches.