Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

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.

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.

I would have followed you to hell and back... if only you'd lead me back.

In a sailboat I become oblivious to everything else in the world.

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.

I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

It’s because I’m so good-looking, isn’t it?

I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be.

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.

That was only a yard away from being an inch-perfect pass.