Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.

Revolution is not a goal in itself.

Factions are a sign of illness in a party.

Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.

There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization.

Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.

The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

This isn't my excuse, this is my reality.

I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.

A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.

From life, from the apple cut by the flaming knife, what grain will be saved? My son, believe me, nothing remains, Only adult toil, the furrow of fate in the palm. Only toil, Nothing more.

I think that this win [Grammy] in particular was a cool moment for me and the director [Emil Nava], because it was the first award he's ever won.

I've learned that if you want people to join in any kind of conservation effort, you have to help them to care with their hearts, not just their heads.

I turned down a contract with a major network in New York my senior year of college in order to move to Los Angeles and pursue my acting career. But so far it's working out.

You cannot create a thing-not a thought, an object, an event-no experience of any kind-which is outside of God's plan. For God's plan is for you to create anything-everything-whatever you want.

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

We kept on racing, doing something that Luis [Salom] loved. Fortunately or unfortunately, life goes on.