The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

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.

Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions

Summertime is a period for youthful explorations, a joyful time when we learn lessons without grand expectations or harsh consequences.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud to as a child.

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

Some people would say you need what you need to work, but I need very little to work, because I learned how to make movies on tiny movies. It's all kind of easy for me.

When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.

A detailed analysis of his four-putt at the 1986 Masters: I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I make.