The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.

You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of property.

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.

The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.

People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.

Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

Apathy's a problem but who cares?

When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

I'm considering writing a self-help book and giving people 20 cents to read it. This way, I can be sure they all get new paradigms.

Fear is the freaky troll under the bridge that leads to achievement.

When Jennifer Lawrence says it's 'dumb' to go hungry to make other people happy, she's saying it with the carefree attitude of a woman who probably will never have to make that choice to conform.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

I have a lot of friends who, especially in Tennessee, were looking forward to getting married who wanted to wait until it was legal in the state that they live in to get married.

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening.

On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ... I can't do it.

Less land, less time, more crop.

The one thing in my films, I only kill people who need to be killed, or killers killing killers. And I believe that the violence is very justifiable.