A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.

The goal of socialism is communism.

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Life is a book. We are writing the stories of our lives.

Money always changes the game, when you let a dollar come between you and your friends, your cohorts.

Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

Statistics indicate that the average American is a guy named Brian who lives in Ohio.

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

The neck is kind of what's sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It was just a whole different way of appealing to what was sexy.

The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.

If your customers are demanding, be thankful.

The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organization.

How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?” “Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot,” I say.