Anti-union propaganda has been considerably more successful here [ in the U.S.] than in Europe, even among working people who would benefit [from] unions.

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.

Love is powerful. If you want more of it in your life be grateful for what you have and love whenever you can. Positive mind-state essential.

Laughter is easiest said in a story

If you see a Renaissance body, this is completely ugly in this time. Everybody has to be skinny. But the Renaissance body with incredible flow of the meat everywhere, it was beauty.

Freedom, like charity, begins at home.

You will go one on one with the Great One!

You have to be willing to expose yourself, at least to yourself, to get to some kind of truth about a character.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.

With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.

Are there no stones in heaven But what serves for thunder?