...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.

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.

You cannot change anyone, but you can be the reason someone changes.

When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times.

And what about the cash, my existence's jewel?

The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.

I’m so glamorous even in pajamas.

Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm.

It means that there's only one love for everyone who exists. And when you meet that love, you know them. You know you were meant to be together, and nothing can keep you apart.

I never thought I would get to have my own action figure.

Nobody knows I'm Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I've got the perfect disguise.