Obama's latest line is that he didn't establish a "red line" but the world did through its conventions on chemical warfare.

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.

He who fears being watched from the abysswill be unable to look into it himself.The truth can only be obtained by pressing forward.

Some disappointments honor those who inspire them

To be at peace in any endeavour, we must release our need to control the outcome.

When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead.

Aside from producing I want to direct but I'm also going to get back out on the road.

Seems to me God made a big mistake when He failed to put handles on watermelons.

I suffered fools so gladly.

Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be