All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

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.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.

Your loyalty to friends and family should have no limit, although it may be expressed in ways that others cannot understand.

On all the peaks lies peace.

I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

We know that the Constitution wisely separates church from state, but remember: the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

I don't think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates.

The more I learn about myself, the more I understand you.

Don't change the man. Change his environment.

Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.