The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

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.

You must be willing to give up what you are, to become what you want to be.

Do not settle for labels that presume you will never heal. Believe in yourself. Find a tribe who understands and believes in you too. Don't ever give up.

But I had no idea what I looked like. Children may feel epic and large to theyselves and yet be only scraps to view.

The brightest candles burn out faster

Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.

Once I was a couple. I was my own king and queen with cheese and bread and rosé on the rocks of Rockport.

The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.

A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.

The Internet had been a BIG help with my career. My advice to musicians, Internet is the key. It gets your music heard all across the world.