Technology provides means for expression and interchange and so on, so yes it should be free and open, but there are a lot of constraints on how its used.

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.

Go out of societal conformity to see and create uplifting beauty.

You are asking for an extra hour after you have wasted a day.

The Greeks who knew everything understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis.

It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.

I can't improve on how the Bible expresses itself, so I don't even try.

Lawns are a form of television

I really want be of great value for the team.

Going after ISIS, it's beautiful, I like it.