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.

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If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

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The best defense against democracy is to distract people.

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The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.

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You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.

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Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

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He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.

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Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies.

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Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.

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That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

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