The world was warned of extremely severe dangers unless urgent steps are taken to deal with global warming.

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.

When you show others love, you are shown love. When you give love, you receive love.

I still wonder what made him leave. Were they my demons or his own?

It takes Passion to bring a Vision to Life.

What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together

I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh.

Never overlook wallflower at dance; may be dandelion in grass.

It's goodbye to some things. And hello to others.

It's not a holiday until you overdo it!

I would rather be called funny than pretty.

Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way; it's a better way, a higher way.