Most of what is done I think is to kept secret so the public won't know. The same is true of what Wikileaks exposed.

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.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

Without a doubt. I believe in fate the same way others believe in God. I do believe in fate.

Keep it simple and focus on what matters. Don't let yourself be overwhelmed.

The Word of God and the Spirit of God are enough for the people of God to enjoy and spread the worship of God.

I've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and then I'll have a full set.

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.

However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud.

Happiness is a choice; not just a matter of genes or good luck.

Inconstancy is the child of satiety.

Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.