Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.

You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of property.

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.

People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.

Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

Apathy's a problem but who cares?

When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

Those who are willing to love find love in every flower.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment!

He felt ready to face the devil, and strutted in the ballroom with the swagger of a cavalier.

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

Music is always a commentary on society.

Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.

Be phenomenal or be forgotten!

I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn.

If the big rocks don't go in first, they aren't going to fit in later.

Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case.