...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.

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.

Whatever people in general do not understand they are always prepared to dislike the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

No one does a better, cleaner, or environmental friendlier, than the United States, when it comes to drilling for oil, gas, coal, oil refineries and fish friendly hydroelectric.

I love the smell of paper in the morning; it smells like victory.

You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

There is no trusting appearances.

Your imagination is yours. You can remember the past you choose, rehearse the future you want, and identify with the real and fictional heroes and events of your selection.

I couldn't give a s***! He just can't take it. Good old Jose, moaning again.

Live in the Acts of the Apostles, and every day you will see some miracle worked by the power of the living God.

Honestly I try to stay away from what has been written about me because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true, it can drive you crazy.