Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.

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.

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.

Perseverance is persistent insistence.

We don't really have to make fun of religion - it makes fun of itself.

There's no solution to life, there's going to be problems no matter what.

A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

Love the player for who they are, not for what they can do for you. Kids see through the coach whose only concern is for himself.

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud.

It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.

What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material - objectified - traces of consumer choices.