In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party

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.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I don't like conservatives. They always talk about the good old days. I'm black, we have no good old days.

Probably saying a 30-second prayer at a key moment has done more good than any psychotherapy or drugs I've prescribed.

Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.

The people of Iraq realize that a stable, successful, democratic Iraq can only come about if average Iraqis are willing to sacrifice to build it.

Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance.

You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star.