Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost for honesty and integrity.
We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.
I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and follow their orders, and that they own and you work there, and you built it but you don’t own it, that’s a highly unnatural notion. You don’t have to study any complicated theories to see that this is an attack on human dignity.
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. Tuition fee increases are a disciplinary technique, and by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but have also internalized the disciplinarian culture. This makes them efficient components of the consumer economy.
Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house, or whether a torturer uses it to crush somebody's skull.
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?
There is one fundamental message that we want to go out from this place to every nook and cranny of our country: There should be no new tax collection without an election.
Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.
I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.
Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the opposite.