My grandchildren are on social media all the time, and they think they have friends. But it's not what I would've called a friend, ever.

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.

Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.

I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.

The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone but that life is not worth living without it.

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

True leaders inspire people to a bigger vision.

In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious.

The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.

Whenever the method of Worship Becomes more Important than the Person of Worship, We have already prostituted Our Worship.

You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.

In the human race today, you came last.