When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.

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.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.

I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists.

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.

I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it.

Things you plan in life usually turn out to be meaningless, things you accumulate without knowing it become your real treasure.