To be a Marxist does not mean that one becomes a Communist party member. There are as many varieties of Marxists as there are of Protestants.

Freedom to think requires not only freedom of expression but also freedom from the threat of orthodoxy and being outcast and ostracized.

... one can judge a civilization by the way its treats its women.

Revolution devours its own parents as well as its own children.

history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness.

The essence of all religion is to be willing to risk your life for a belief - not for survival.

... Without memory how will you ever find your way back to where you came from?

As Plato: What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.

They have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind.

There is a vast territory between what we're trying to leave behind, and where we want to go - and we don't have any maps for that territory.

As far as I know, no one in the Kaufman or Hart clan was the basis for anyone in the play. I think we all wish we had a Grandpa, Penny, and Mr. De Pinna in our families.

If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you're going to get a good education, we've got a real problem.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.

To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind.