The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation.

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.

Hope is the easiest thing that turn into dust.

The sacred-souls of authors are displayed in the beauty of their books.

You might think that a boy is just your friend, but then if you find out that maybe he likes you (in a boyfriend way), everything changes instantly. (47)

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.

Tell me, ye wingèd winds That round my pathway roar, Know ye not some spot Where mortals weep no more?

Respect is heaven, respect is liberation.

The Redskins haven't won the division since 1999, and we came in and we did it in one year!