We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

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.

Education is the key to the door of opportunity.

Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!

The louder he talked of his honour the faster we counted our spoons.

Personally, I prefer the dark side.

Mental differences between the lowest men and the animals are less than those between the lowest and the highest man.

There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.

Celebrity is a currency with an exchange rate almost as strong as anonymity.

I've always been conscious of my weight.

The supreme morality of art is to endure.

An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.