What matters is what happens among the powerful.

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.

Your life today and tomorrow is patterned alongside your thoughts. You are therefore advised to create good and wonderful thoughts today so they will deliver a beautiful tomorrow for you.

We of alien looks or words must stick together.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

If you're doing the best you can, that's good enough.

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.

I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.

I think that the over-incarceration of black and brown folk is one of the great crimes of American society.

To have grown wise and kind is real success.

People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!