There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind

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.

It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.

I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men.

Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.

The key to The Doors is the culture behind the myth.

I think because I was the first Chinese player to win a grand slam, people were thinking: 'She's not like normal people.'

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

I am willing to make any part of my life public, if it will help others.

Usually a lot of moviemaking is boring.

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

He wanted to care, he wanted to care so badly, but there was this gap between what he felt and what he wanted to feel, a space where something important had been carved out.