The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

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.

Every woman was once a little girl with big dreams. Believe in yourself and never quit dreaming!

A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact visiting other worlds

As the children get older and know what they want ... We all grew up at one point.

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.