Religion is the balm of the people.

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.

Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling likethey're falling in love with the ground.

You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

In France, like in most countries, the respect you receive depends on your class.

Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.

Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains