The development of space technology, including space warfare today, is similar in its technological-industrial significance to the development of navies a hundred years ago.

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.

Expose the Jesuit order and learn about the global genocide. Speak out, even when what you have to say is not popular.

The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

To talk to his children about God, a person needs to first talk to God with the impossible.

There is only one '' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the enforcement of general abstract rules equally applicable to all.

If you can throw $5 back in the crafty, we'll take it, because it just means another meal, which is nice.

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us.