Never let a crisis go to waste

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.

They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

Control healthcare and you control the people

History is a relay of revolutions.

In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at

If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

I like to say I'm geek-chic with a little bit of showgirl.I get asked it a lot, and it really does kind of sum it up.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.

I like to sing with people, whether they're good or not.

I'm getting really tired of bleeding. Someone stop the world, I want to get off.

It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.

If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up.

I would rather sing about my love affair or about a woman or to a woman than some guys any day.

One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.