The entire socioeconomic system is based on production for profit and a growth imperative that cannot be sustained.

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.

We follow the rules of Jungle.survival, survival, survival.

Successs is like ur own shadow! If u try 2 catch then u ll never succeed, but ignore it & walk in ur own way… it will follow u.

Letting someone control your life for you and decide what you will be is a sure way of creating things to regret on the day of reckoning.

The result always mattered more than the rhetoric.

In the rural South, 'Bubba' is like how people say 'dude' in California. It's a name for a regular Southern man. I know a Chinese Bubba, a black Bubba.

Can you control your anger, lust, frustrations, and jealousies? Those are the only people worthy of the higher teachings. By worthy, I mean that they are the only ones capable of it.

Follow your heart and your mind will create.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.

It's nerve wracking being in the stadium with so many people supporting.