For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

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 seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.

People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.

Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

I am convinced that by eating biological foods it is possible to avoid a tumor.

Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.

[One] who is healthy in body, resourceful in soul and of a readily teachable nature.