The free market is 'socialism' for the rich: the public pays the costs and the rich get the benefit - markets for the poor and plenty of state protection for the rich.

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.

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

Trust nature and make peace with something in your life.

You are the Arabian stallion that neighs on the crossroad of my heart ache covering me with the dust of my own ardor.

Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.

Is this not enough? This blessed sip of life Is it not enough? Staring down at the ground Then complain and pray for more from above Greedy little pig

Virtue is to herself the best reward.

I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it.

The president doesn't get a line-item veto, so all the budgetary approps stuff is with Congress.