You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard of, doing work.

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.

Beauty in its simplest form doesn't need appraisal or constant change

Never prove people right. Never prove them wrong. Prove instead that you make your own path in life.

Nothing exists except through human consciousness

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

I kinda flirt with everything and everyone, no matter if it's a tree or a coffee cup. I can't resist.

In Australia there are not limits on what you can believe but there are limits on how you can behave. It's called the law, and no one is above it.

A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that.

How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!

I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.

If I cared deeply about what people thought of me, I probably would have never made it out of Compton, California.