If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin

To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.

This will be the night I escape. The thought repeated in my mind like a refrain, over and over, and I believed it so hard that I whispered it aloud: ‘This will be the night I escape!

So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.

People who come up to me are drummers or fans of the band. I don't get it too much, but I'll be somewhere and someone will have me take a picture or something.

As designers we have a great responsibility.

What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember.

There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans.

Suicide by carbon monoxide used to be done in the garage. Now, all you have to do is go to Mexico City and inhale.

I want people to consider the idea that the only way of moving forward with their lives is to revisit and confront their issues and their pasts.