“Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.”
“You'll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns -
And the public wants what the public gets - but I don't get what this society wants.”
Going Underground (1980)
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“I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get.”
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“I don't want to end up in the gutter punctured by machine gun slugs.”

“The number one reason most people don't get what they want is that they don't know what they want.”
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“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.”
From Sex book
Variant: A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.