When I am at home, I never watch TV, but when I am abroad in a hotel I take a look at the BBC to find out what's going on.

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.

Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.

Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.

The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple pleasures become complicated.

I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.

The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to Him. By God's help, I aim to be that man.

Enjoyment is only possible when you are beyond your mind.

I come from a really lovely, really smart family where the only stress was money and employment.

Obama will learn from his mistakes.

I'm not so proud to think that anything is unworthy, and I don't think I was that way 10 years ago.

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.