Capital is dead labor that vampirelike lives only by sucking living labor and lives the more the more labor it suck.

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.

Words can mean nothing, or be daggers in someone's heart. Choose them wisely.

The closer two people stand to each other inwardly, the more readily they become for each other the condition under which alone their two beings find expression.

I wished I could spend the rest of my life... being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.

We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility.

Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society’s energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.

It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.

Great cooking is about being inspired by the simple things around you - fresh markets, various spices. It doesn't necessarily have to look fancy.

TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle

For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.

For Fang, getting out of bed in the morning is a career move.