Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.

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.

At war, there's no right or wrong.Winner's right while loser's wrong.

What you do with it and things like that, but I basically chose this after I read it because I thought it was different and funny and unique and dark - things that I like to do.

The road to freedom is full of thorns and fire, yet happy is he who follows it!

After age twelve, birthdays should be as private as hernia surgery.

After you've been away, people's expectations are like, "Well, you better have something to show for it. Tell us why you've been away so long!"

Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.

No broken hearts, no broken necks.

Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?

No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.

I've done some good work and some not-good work.