Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

Without analysis, no synthesis.

The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.

Sinners, pray to a merciful God for forgiveness.

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.

Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

Understanding arises through making

I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.

The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.

Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.