There are cultures that produce different kinds of attitudes, whether it's religion, fatalism, sense of fear, repression, the culture of God and the police minimizes confidence in people.

Leadership is another word for preparation.

I consider this a kind of neoliberalism of the Left, this rise and promotion of spontaneity above preparation.

The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens.

Where there is a living memory of struggle, they have a living memory of the rebellion. Where there's no struggle afterward the rebellion is forgotten.

To build a mass movement, nonviolence is indispensable.

To be a Communist or to be somebody who believes in the future is a curious thing. So you have to live with people around you, you have to be with the people.

I understand politically that uprisings take place as a combination of spontaneity and preparation, not that preparation is more important than spontaneity.

You cannot have politics without building mass-movements.

You see often it's not ideas, it's inertia, it's bureaucratism, it's all the other things that sometimes come in the way of a good idea.

Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.

Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

Now it was just the two of us, Max and me. And about a thousand other people around us.

In the long run one gets used to anything.

Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished.

Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

Floating in a lake, lying in a hammock, playing a bit of Scrabble...that's what I'm in need of.

The only place I really get recognized is at Ralphs. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go to Ralphs, and for some reason, everyone there recognizes me.

This isn't just an unhappy planet. Sometimes very good things can happen.

The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up.