The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

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.

Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required.

I come from a rural state. People drive 50, 100 miles to and from work every single day. That is true all over America.

Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.

I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful.

I have an idea that all sensible people will ultimately be damned.

Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.

Nine lives added to my one life makes a perfect 10.

I also understood that God's love shows itself just as well in the simplest soul which puts up no resistance to His grace as it does in the loftiest soul.

I do not like [in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for... protection against standing armies

You know that failure prelude to being the victim of what is criminally wrong.