Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

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.

But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn’t near you.

An uneducated society will eventually turn into something lower than a herd of animals!

You're only a dog old fellow a dog and you've had your day But never a friend of all my friends has been truer than you alway.

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei

Why do old people drive with their mouths open?

I think some people found the production took away from the actual songs, which I can understand.

Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion. As we learn to know and appreciate those of various cultures, we come to appreciate them.

If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.

Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose.

I heard black people sing and the emotion was overwhelming to me. The power of that with all the built in sorrow and joy was just overwhelming to me as a little kid. It was the real deal.