Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.

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.

While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

When you favour a woman, she will want to return the favour in so many means, but its better to rupidiate such offerings.

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.

After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.

I need to know how the clock is made after you tell me what time it is. I want to know all the details so I can understand how it works.

Fast pitch softball is just as dangerous as baseball. The ball is bigger so you can see it better, but the size also makes for a bigger space to move out of its way.

You believe by doubting and you doubt by believing; yet this state too is not the final one.

All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.

You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.