The people who are running this planet are insane - they are literally destroying it. I don't know where they think they're gonna drink water, breathe air.

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.

Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.

I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.

To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

When we change and grow into new versions of ourselves, we have to tolerate a lot of uncertainty.

Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.

I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.

Giving is what makes a nation great.

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

My fashion philosophy is that if I like it, I wear it.

One can't even know what it means to be lost in reality. For instance, it is easy to know whether you are lost or not in the Sahara desert, but to be lost in reality! This is much more complex!

Every day on the water is a good day!