If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.

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.

Pray. Not just with your words, but with your actions.

The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.

I didn't think it was special to be able to sing.

If there's a simple, easy design principle that binds everything together, it's probably about starting with the people.

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.

cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.

my sitters get tired waiting for commissioned portraits. If they commission me they have to wait years sometimes because I discard so many.