Man makes religion, religion does not make man

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.

Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.

I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.

We read, we travel, we become.

Better to flee from death than feel its grip.

My books have three W's on them, which are "words," "wisdom," and "wonder." Words inevitably lead to wisdom, and wisdom inevitably leads to wonder and awe at this phenomenal world around us.

Some guys like to talk. What's the problem with that?

I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend a good bit of time in Spain.

On my last day of shooting, I'd be happy to say 'Cut, it's a wrap' and fall off the twig.

When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come.

Unless the company becomes obsessed with constant change for the better, gradual change for the worse usually goes unnoticed.