Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group.

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.

Before getting upset, always ask yourself: Will this even matter in six months, in a year, or in five years? if the answer is no, then let it go.

Love Is Like A Plant.We Give It Attention, It Grows. We Ignore It, It Dies

Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way.

As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories; don't seek the truth.

To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.

The cliche is dead poetry.

Abusers thrive on creating confusion, including confusion about the abuse itself.

I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.