They [the union] were members of the Communist Party - they didn't care one way or another about Russia, they just cared about the United States.

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.

Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death.

Tears mess up your makeup.

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, but because they don't.

For that to happen, growth has to be very strong. To get back to normalcy, we will have to have extended growth of more than 3 percent. That's not in the cards.

Stercus Accidit. [barren happens]

I had to learn to value myself before I could expect to be valued by others

The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.

Attack where he is unprepared; sally forth when he does not expect you.

Few can remember clearly when innocence came to a sudden end, the moment at which we ask for the first time: Am I loved?