The internet is something created largely by public funding.

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.

I firmly believe God continues to answer the prayers of His people even after He has taken them to heaven. Never forget that God isn’t bound by time the way we are. We see only the present moment

Every morning when I wake up, I make up my mind to solve as many problems, before retiring home

Technologists practice faith too; 'Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.'

Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.

In British culture, redheads get teased at school. But I've grown up enough to realize I love my hair.

It is not enough to forgive; one must forget.

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.

That could be the issue that the party - that the party faces as we get ready to potentially nominate someone who's utterly unelectable in a general election contest.