There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

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.

Don't you oh well me, sir, " Miss Maudie replied, recognizing Jem's fatalistic noises, "you are not old enough to appreciate what I said.

Love is like a knife. It can either hurt you or it's too dangerous to hold on too.

Get your life. Because while you are neglecting yourself for whatever cause, that is exactly what everyone else is doing -- children, spouse, co-workers, etc.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.

There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.

I play Hank Hansen, a real guy. Youd be amazed at how much information they have on this guy: personality traits, nicknames, favorite color, you name it.

If I sold all my liabilities, I wouldn't own anything. My wife's a liability, my kids are liabilities, and I haven't sold them.

Nature itself cannot err