Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.

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.

About me - I used to want to be a P.E. teacher, and kind of still do.

I think I'll be working a lot less as I get older

Perfume is a note of woman's individuality. It is the last touch to her look.

Everyone has this sense of togetherness right now. For example, one guy on the subway today, he wanted to share my pants.

Nobody really knows what the market is going to do, but it sure looks like we are going to have a lot more volatility.

The creation of new capital always... releases... labor. Its actual effect [though] is not to make jobs scarce, but to free men's labor for other jobs.

I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.

You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down. Abraham Lincoln said it...

I feel lonely at times, but I don't want to get into a relationship with someone if it is not right. I'm not the type of person who just does things to do them.

Realisation is a matter of becoming conscious of that which is already realised.