The internet, since it is publicly created, ought to be publicly controlled.

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.

Because nothing between human beings is uncomplicated and there's no way to speak of human beings without simplifying and misrepresenting them.

That girl was a goddess and once a guy got hooked on her it was damn hard weaning off. - Drake

I run so my goals in life will continue to get bigger instead of my belly.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.

You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

To me, theater is a spiritual experience. Probably the reason I do theater is it, I guess, comes the closest to feeling like God, or to feeling a spiritual experience that people can have together.

You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.

The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe.

Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.

Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.