I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.

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.

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

I am an ordinary person but carried to extremes.

Death is the same for the one who dies.

I'm not a complicated person.

Do you have a death wish?" he asked. Will grinned at him. I'm just relying on your judgment," he replied. "I can't keep track of everything in my head.

So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.

Critique the performance, and respect the hard work put in.

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.

Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.