The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

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.

Manners, boy. I'll beat them into you if I have to.

The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, the question is what you can make people believe that you have done.

I'm loud and I'm vulgar, and I wear the pants in the house because somebody's got to, but I am not a monster. I'm not.

For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful investing is a kind of alchemy.

We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.

Sure every driver has his value and you want to be respected... but again money is not something that drives me.

Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is necessarily a loafer.

I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.