We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin

To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.

People feeling the need to live inside of Faraday cages is a sad reflection on modern society that humans are devolving into living inside of safe spaces.

Modern war is the most highly developed of all sciences. We have perfected our weapons but failed to perfect the men who use them.

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.

I think people want the intimacy in the engagement of sitting in a theater with people and seeing something happen live and engage in that. I think that could be a very powerful experience.

You can define everything as being political and analyze it politically.

Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.

Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as a good state.

I went to Clive Davis' Grammy party, and I nearly spontaneously combusted because everyone on my iPod was there!

I wish his music came out of the closet and admit that it sucks.

Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'