Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.

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.

It is easier to define whether or not you can afford something than whether you need it in the first place.

All your troubles, struggles, pains and suffering is worth one good thing.

If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.

It is no fun at all to have been writing a book for seven or so years, especially when you've never published anything before.

I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.

There are social democrats and others who are marching more in the direction of equality, whether you call them socialists or communists... Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.

Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the tree

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

Dont look to the sky for fireworks when you can watch them light up in the eyes of all the people passing by.