The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

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.

I’m not asking for your forgiveness. I have done no wrong according to my kind. I never meant to turn you. I just wanted to have a little fun with you before they took you away.

The closer one gets to the top the more one finds there is no "top."

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.

Base your happiness on being real, not on illusions and expectations.

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

No one is a natural - you have to work at being a natural.

Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.