If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

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.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.

The real secret of patience is to find something to do in the meantime.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.

I don't do social events, I don't do award ceremonies, I don't do charity dinners. I live my life off-radar.

I like to go on YouTube to see the underground sounds, what the kids are listening to, and kind of gauge my music around that.

Things just happen, it will pass, it's your learning process.