The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.

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.

Create and communicate absolute clarity of purpose.

... my early writing was a silent fury - at what or whom, I had no idea - but I shut it in until it burned my bones and now, I've let it out...

I have enough patient to wait for the fulfillment of my wishes.

We as [churches] may be lampstands, but all of the light is Christ Himself. We exist in order that He might shine through us.

The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part.

I'm a vulgar lounge entertainer, I don't need to wear a tie.

The more unhappy you are, the more miserable you are, the more you're going to suffer.

I woke with a start. At first I assumed I'd trumped myself awake again.

The enemy wants to steal our peace and keep us stirred up, anxious, fearful, upset, and always in a stance of waiting for something terrible to happen at any minute.