The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

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 production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books.

The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind.

I have to say that I saw terrorists in 2002, went to Islamabad, Pakistan, and met women who were supporting this ideology. I call them the Taliban Ladies Auxiliary back then.

Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.

My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.

You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.

As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.

Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.

The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.

So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face.