The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.

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 never met a word I didn't love

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communicationOf the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

I'm a liberal and I'm left of Gandhi and I don't like Trump.

Whatever Language Pakistan understands India should teach in that language

Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize.

I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

I read things I didn't know I'd done, It sounded like a lot of fun.