The freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow.

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.

FAIL UP. If something doesn’t go how you planned it, learn from it, do something differently next time. And, by the way, effort deserves credit. Pat yourself on the back!

Concentration is the doorway through which the meditative state becomes available.

I wonder if only artists can feel peace like this—such a gentle, inconspicuous peace that an ordinary person might not even notice.

I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else.

I've learned to really enjoy video games. It's really toxic to have in your house, because it's really distracting.

The wrongs of a Husband or Master are not reproached.

Devotion is a place where you do not exist; life just flows through you as a certain sweetness and beauty.

To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts.

Being Puerto Rican, born and raised on the streets of New York, you go, 'Wow, you're still friends with your ex, man? Really? That's weird.' I don't play that.

I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul.