A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

Follow your own path, no matter what people say.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

My life is circus

Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.

If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be. I think of dieting, then I eat pizza. I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier — unfortunately.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.

I mean, what's eleven million people now days?