If you're in a system where you must make profit in order to survive. You are compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects on others.

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.

To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations.

I want to help give people the ability to stop and take just a few minutes a day to regroup and refocus: to give them a chance to get perspective on the things that matter and the things that don't.

The deepest reality you are aware of is the one from which you draw your power.

You know who you belong to Jack? - Yeah. Yourself. - He's wrong, actually, I belong to Ma. p. 261 Room by E Donoghue

Poor me, poor me, pour me another.

It's a good thing [James] Dean died when he did. If he'd lived, he'd never have been able to live up to the publicity.

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions

Novelty in all things is charming.

There are no limits to your possibilities! Your successes will multiply and increase in proportion to your mastery of the law.

The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.