Governments don't control people like they used to.

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.

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

Integrity and blame can never be friends.

I studied computer science and graphic design, yeah, so music was self-taught and a backburner thing, an obsessive hobby.

I smoke pot when I work. I take a couple of tokes before I start. It just loosens you up.

I consider Laurence [Fishburn], Keanu [Reeves], both very acclaimed actors, I mean so good.

A lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. But we are just on the frontier of discovery and invention. It's a very exciting time.

I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I do Tracy Anderson's dance aerobics classes.

Setting a good example is truly the most effective means of communication - and setting a poor one is disastrous!

Why would you try to kill this guy, Kevin? He's a genius. Nuts to your truce.

The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.