Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.

My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

The root of identity crises: we seem to know a lot about ourselves, but we can't tell who we are. Realize your self!

From the moment that man submits God to moral judgment, he kills Him his own heart.

With God in the Joy of Beauty and Youth

No matter what you're doing, if you're trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

Work is its own best earthly meed, Else have we none more than the sea-born throng Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.

There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.

My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.