When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.

You may hate being pregnant, but the minute the baby is born, she is God's precious child, given to you as a gift.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

When you meditate you will be able to get in touch with that part of yourself which knows what it wants, as opposed to the levels and layers of conditioning in your mind.

I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

France is a country you have to drive through to get to Italy. That's all it's there for.

I'm so much like Luke Skywalker I guess I always will be.

Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that.

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

You need the courage to seem foolish and to fail.

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away.