If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

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.

You opinions about me does not change who I am.

You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something of what has been lost.

We're hoping to succeed; we're okay with failure. We just don't want to land in between.

I like to think I'm like water that adapts to its surroundings and eventually finds a way in.

Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.

There's something so wonderful about being an actor in New York.

I pray every day for all who are suffering in Iraq. Please join me.

I have two hands. I can hold two medals.

She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew.

Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.