Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without massive government spending and in fact initiative.

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.

Dreams keep us motivated and goals keep us going. But we gotta take action to achieve our goals, to make our dreams come true.

David Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times.

The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.

Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.

Why should I bring happiness to those I loathe by obliterating myself, when I can make them miserable just by existing?

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.

Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress.

Believe in yourself. Tell yourself everyday "I am a talented person with a wonderful gift to give others!"

You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing.