She was part of the machine she tended, and every faculty that was not needed for the machine was doomed to be crushed out of existence.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.

You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since.

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.

I don't know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- 'social justice.' For that is what I have believed in and fought for.

You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

not all feeling of butterflies in the tummy means love, it might sometimes mean lust, fear, hunger e.t.c

Fear is faith that it won't work out.

It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.

Beware, for as you sleep, the exhausted man will be first to reach the peak.

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.

You can treat faith as part of people's it's lives.

What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.

Life is all about moments. No one in history has ever been able to hold on to one.

It all comes down to probable cause: If you think something's up, maybe you gotta take a look.