The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.

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.

Maybe love, unfathomable love, was too much for people, so they had traded it for something easier.

Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads.

Check yourself often and correct your faults. Quit blaming others. Take responsibility for your own life. That's the only way you can grow!

I do think your attitude towards money is an inherent part of your character.

It turns out that President Obama has acid reflux. He had a sore throat, went to the hospital, and they diagnosed it as acid reflux. Talk about irony -- it's not covered by Obamacare.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of man.

Just keep working. I've been working hard, so just keep on doing what I've been doing.

Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for a month, and it becomes like a torture.

I believe in the mystery, and I don't want to take it any further than that. Maybe what I mean by that is love.