The general public are not even aware of major decisions that will determine their fate, hence are in no position to influence them

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.

Come with me Tlothy. Lady misfortune always brings together the unlucky.” Said Aissawa laughing.

Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.

I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

In countries around the world, waistlines are expanding so rapidly that health experts recently coined a term for the epidemic: globesity.

Public-Private Partnership in financing, service delivery and provision of workspaces and training of trainers must be promoted to meet the demand and supply gap in the field of skill development.

I never really considered myself attractive, really. I was always kind of gangly in school.

One of the things that I have encouraged President Trump to do, and I'm optimistic about this, is to take on directly the regulatory state; to take it on, to fire bureaucrats.

If you get a little gassy, you've got to let it go. So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.'