Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin

To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.

In our sin, we’d rather trust in ourselves than another, amass our own righteousness than receive another’s, speak our own mind rather than listen to someone else.

The thing that makes you say, "I want to do something" - that is the beginning of talent.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

Malice blunts the point of wit.

Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics.

I have dreamed much and have done very little.

But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.

Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.