If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.

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 Holy Scripture is Spirit-taught words.

A person is neither right or wrong-- there is only a right attitude and a right interaction.

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria.

There is no retracing our steps.

I'm a very neat monster.

As soon as you give your heart to something new you will immediately be able to think in a way that is new.

Small beginnings are the launching pad to great endings.

She lies about her age and weight and is slightly older than Rocket. But they've been a couple for eight years, longer than most in Hollywood.

I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.