The Irish sea is a chasm, and it just depends who's been holding the whip for 800 years and who's been under it for 800 years.

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.

People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.

You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask

There is usually less romance in marriage than in any other relationship of life. But the general idea concerning marriage is that it is all or nearly all romance.

It is natural for me to ignore autograph seekers, but God wants me to share my testimony card with them and be loving. That power and initiative comes from him.

Making the films is never easy, but actually that aspect of trying to make a better film or to keep the standard high is something that comes organically.

The process of just being in front of people, having to stand up for your ideas, and ask - and then ask people for money, which is a very hard thing to do.

Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.

It is another Justine Henin who will try and go out there and achieve her dream of finally winning Wimbledon.

He who always acts under obedience may be assured that he will not have to give an account of his actions to God.

The light had simply and utterly destroyed the darkness.