The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got

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.

Oh, Irrylath, Irrylath, we squaundered our two years together.

Peace is everyone’s birthright.

Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares? He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!

My children and grandchildren loved the secret servicemen and women that served us. I was honoured that they thought I was important enough to protect.

I never felt I had to prove myself with anything.

I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but it's also true that a certain strand of Italy's film history has passed though me.

We called my dad MacGyver when I was a kid, and I learned a lot from him. He just enjoys problem solving in that way. I do, too, which is something I inherited.

Terrorists had the advantage of surprise.

If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important - and you do that by being genuine and humble.

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.