Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God.

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.

Just breathe the beauty of life.

Keenness is dangerous but also rebirth of thought and mind. Complacency is the death of ideals. Always stay keen.

The artist does not see things as they are but as he is.

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.

I worked with Lady Gaga for a day on a video shoot. It was crazy; we had a lot of fun. I had a great time.

I look back at the past as fond memories but I'm able to move forwards in a new light, like I'm reborn.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere.

Personally, I do movies the way I cook. I put in what I like, in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week.

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.