The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction

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 more you can forgive a person, the more you can love him.

Infatuation is like a drug that gives you the best high yet gives you the worst headache after.

I have had a most unusual life so far. I know not why.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.

Time has no meaning, Love will endure.

Anything having to do with what is happening inside people has political significance to me. That is why I like the term "holistic politics."

There's only one ball game for any writer, and it's to keep you turning the pages. That's the whole ball game. That's what I have to do.

God cannot be realized without love. Yes, sincere love.

Humble enough to prepare, confident enough to perform.