I had no expectations about Barack Obama and I'm not in the least disillusioned.

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.

The harder the fight, the greater the victory.

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic.

Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

I can see that cinema seems to be finished. Everybody has a bigger screen at home. I'm assuming eventually you won't need a screen at all - these iPhones will just project.

Your world and everything in it is a reflection of your own mental attitude toward yourself.

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.

But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.