Of the people, by the people, for the people.

To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.

An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.

If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by force of arms.

Trust is earned by many deeds, and lost by only one.

The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on!

In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.

The whole world is one family.

To understand is difficult; to act is easy.

Only powerful people have liberty.

Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease is the inability to subsist, and the result of the disease is war.

Belief is otiose reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.

I can dream, though - can't I, for myself? Even if you have not the imagination or the soul?

Build your life not on what you see today but on the things of tomorrow

The artist like the idiot or clown sits on the edge of the world and a push may send him over it.

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.

Sin is more than an act or a series of acts; it is a man's make-up.

The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and has become instead a shield for those who master it.

McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.

Anyone who contributes to the defense fund of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.

There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage.