[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other science.

The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.

Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.

There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy.

The most revolutionary act is a clear view of the world as it really is.

We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.

The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.

Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.

Vision without Mission is Lame

There is no medicine like hope no incentive so great and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

The idea that we are going to be able to take our entire society as it currently works and simply change the source of energy and make it sustainable is not actually congruent with reality.

I love all kinds of music.

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

Fill a space in a beautiful way.

They've been so bloody ruthless that you almost get no choice in the matter.

What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.

I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In the desert, change is nurtured even in stone by wind, by water, through time.