The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.

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.

When you walk in the company of your courage, nothing & no one - can stand in your way.

I think imperfection is beauty. Instead of being insecure about my muscles, I've learned to love them. I don't even think of it as a flaw anymore because it's made me into the athlete that I am.

Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that--for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty--is demonstrably untrue?

If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.

Sometimes I look back and think, "How did I write that? The book is smarter than I am!" I have never written strategically, but rather, followed the dictates of my muse.

Death cannot alter facts - only feelings.

That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to.

religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.

You can't force someone to see the truth, just like you can't force a blind man to see.

It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.