Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.

The goal of socialism is communism.

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.

Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.

She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.

Quebecers have rarely in their history been better represented than they are right now - at the highest levels of the federal government.

Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except the one we remember.

I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.

The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value.

But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.

I'm such a fan of Lily's [Tomlin], for so many years. I feel like Lily was the first popular mainstream crossover comedian who also was kind of an overtly feminist comedian.

It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.