The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.

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.

The circumstances surrounding your birth are not as important as the opportunity to live life.

Creating an environment musically that shows that we all belong together is what I'm interested in doing, and that happened really early on.

To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.

Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily. Sacrifices are necessary.

I just think if you're gonna play a show you should try and look nice.

Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.

There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.

You don't have to be the specialist on everything. You can try to inform yourself.

've had notebooks, but they are nondescript. All I care about is that they fit in my hand. I scribble down ideas. The problem is my best ideas come while I'm driving or showering.