Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.

Leadership is another word for preparation.

I consider this a kind of neoliberalism of the Left, this rise and promotion of spontaneity above preparation.

The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens.

Where there is a living memory of struggle, they have a living memory of the rebellion. Where there's no struggle afterward the rebellion is forgotten.

To build a mass movement, nonviolence is indispensable.

To be a Communist or to be somebody who believes in the future is a curious thing. So you have to live with people around you, you have to be with the people.

I understand politically that uprisings take place as a combination of spontaneity and preparation, not that preparation is more important than spontaneity.

You cannot have politics without building mass-movements.

You see often it's not ideas, it's inertia, it's bureaucratism, it's all the other things that sometimes come in the way of a good idea.

When you are threatened, when your life is threatened, you have to fight back.

When choosing a profession, a person will have good incentive for personal development by choosing such a profession that represents a personal challenge.

Love may be a ring that has no end, but the logic is far from circular.

Don't lose faith in humanity: think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.

Of course my life has changed because now everybody knows who Felix Baumgartner is.

I'm super reserved in letting people in my house. A lot of guys don't trust anybody in their homes but they would trust somebody like me because I've been there.

There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

I think that the message I have of optimism and hope about Britain's bright future outside the European Union is shared by many Conservative members and voters - indeed by a majority of the country.

Nought may endure but Mutability.

For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.