Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.

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.

I think the closest thing to a time machine that I've ever found is the Children's section of a library.

It went automatically to a heavy-weight mother with beetling eyebrows who looked as if she had just come from doing a spot of knitting at the foot of the guillotine.

Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.

I want to do my own thing, and I'm trying to get closer to realizing that as a filmmaker.

No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away.

There's always someone going to come around who can be better than the best. You want to be the first. No one can ever forget the first.

Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

The ocean, king of mountains and the mighty continents Are not heavy burdens to bear when compared To the burden of not repaying the world's kindness.

Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.