There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

I don’t think comedy will ever die.

I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society.

I love making movies, but there’s nothing like performing live.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

I just make good movies. That’s the way I thank my fans.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

I know about two things: ‚Rocky III‘ and Clubber Lang, and ‚A-Team‘ and B.A. Baracus. That’s who I am!

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Libraries raised me.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

You make ‚em, I amuse ‚em.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

With music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

‚Educational‘ refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.