Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.

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.

Being peaceful may not be exciting like being at war, but it is the bliss and joy of life that you really enjoy.

It wouldn't do to go mixing up the present and the past, and cutting bits out of one to fit into the other.

I find my greatest Power when I am Kind.

In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.

Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.

We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves.

Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.

It's a very long and difficult schedule on a single-camera show.

Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world. Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling, ever growing with the upward thrust of life.