“Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.”

Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

Quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.

I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.

We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its Did I say socialism?

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man.

I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

I’ve always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.

All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.

The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.

I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it’s my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.

Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?

I believe that the internet as an open platform for distribution could be a great chance for the diversity of film production.

It’s easier for me to sit with the producers and the writers and I give them my feelings and my thoughts and what I think I feel like singing about and then they go away and write it.

I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type.

This aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.

If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.