Control is the source of strategic power.

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.

Success will not come to you like a baby who came to his mother

every lord was a servant and every servant will be a lord.

Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Some people don't take me seriously, so I had to work harder.

God is within your mind. God is within all things. As a matter of fact, there is nothing that is not God.

They stayed away in droves.

When we appreciate how much we have, we feel the urge to pare down, get back to basics, and learn what is essential for our happiness. We long to realize what's really important.

I'm a terrible dancer. The worst.

But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.