To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.

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.

Do we miss out on love because we are working so hard? Or are we working so hard because we missed out on love?

Our ministries are strengthened, sometimes more than we realize, by our devotional life.

You need to make a decision - are you are an imitator or an innovator?

Memory results from a process of continual re-categorization which, by its nature, must be procedural and involve continual motor activity and repeated rehearsal.

he who feeds you, controls you

All this sea of humanity reassured me that as alien as i felt, there were always others in the world far odder than I

The internet is an amazing medium for languages.

The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.

Love is a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless; But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.

When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.