“My parents, you see, were a little square. They cared more about being good parents in the general sense than being good parents for me. They wanted to appear normal; respectable and responsible. B...”

“The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it, I offered tentatively. It was very convincing.”

“I learned how to argue. They called it Debate. I learned how to worship. I learned how to become an eager worker and a passive consumer.But I didnt learn anything practical, like how to purify wate...”

“Those drugs were either going to bring me nirvana or they were going to kill me. I was sure of it. And I was comfortable with it.”

“I liked all the children in my class. Back then, I think we all just tacitly assumed that we were equal. That we were all in the same boat. We didnt really think about our different genders, races ...”

“The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it,” I offered tentatively. “It was very convincing.”

“Education doesnt make you happy. Nor does freedom. We dont become happy just because were free if we are. Or because weve been educated if we have. But because education may be the means by which...”

“Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of bei...”

“The past has no power over the present moment.”

“Why wont you help me?You have to able to manage on your own.”

“Education is the greatest manifestation of the innate potential of human mind.”

“Ignorance is a sickness every person should avoid.. as once you are infected by it.. it becomes a morbid rotation that sometimes can be hard to escape from.”

“Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to the bidding of their leader. All you have to do is tell them they're being attacked and denounce t...”

“We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between useful survival information and the emotional and psychological...”

“A propaganda model has a certain initial plausibility on guided free-market assumptions that are not particularly controversial. In essence, the private media are major corporations selling a produ...”