No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.

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.

Highest miracle is to discover who you are – the ultimate possibility.

Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.

Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.

Looking at everything through your phone is only numbing your perception - it does not really enhance your experience of life in any way.

Everything's uglier close up," she said. "Not you," I answered.

I embrace that I'm different. That I'm unique.

To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good.

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.