To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person.

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 don’t know who you are or where you are, but I know your deep driving desires. I am writing to you to make your life a little easier and better.

Good strategy, keep the conversation going until a guard notices the bodies outside the door. Maybe bursts in to save you. Not a bad idea.

Speaking Akil’s name around Stefan felt like throwing gasoline on a bushfire." ~ Muse

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so.

When we trust God, He can make the ordinary extraordinary!

The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.

Maybe I should stay a good soldier of cinema.