Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

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.

Be grateful for every circumstance.

Draw me October on the window with rain.

All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.

Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.

True love is like religion. It is full of devotion and free of doubt.

You can't do anything about the past. And you don't know what the future is.