You should not do this, Comrade. We are only in the introductory stage yet, here in Western Europe. And in that stage it is better to encourage the fighters than the rulers.

There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe.

To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!

Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries.

What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class?

As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.

A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him.

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.

For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.

I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.

The fear is that talking back, that engaging at all, is to open the door for god-knows-what.

That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice.

I feel qualified and competent to try anything that's thrown my way because I don't have to be a success. I can just try.

I've discovered that the more freedom I have to be creative, the more creative I become.