The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

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.

In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were ever there.

Do good. That’s all any of us can do.

Replacing “progress” with “innovation” skirts the question of whether a novelty is an improvement: the world may not be getting better and better but our devices are getting newer and newer.

Truth like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil however deeply sown will make its way to the light.

It is easy to build a philosophy. It doesn't have to run.

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

To change your language you must change your life.

Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.

I am against slavery simply because I dislike slaves.

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.