The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

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.

He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.

You can’t make a small world for yourself, because what are you going to do when that small world implodes?

I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it.

There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm interested in whatever is going on. And I'm not that comfortable myself.

Looks can be decieving

I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science background, so I approached things fairly analytically.

Like the newspapers used to say, if the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend.

The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.