“Silence is argument carried out by other means.”

Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.

I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.

To accomplish much you must first lose everything.

We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity.

The life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals!

The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.

To execute a man we don’t need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it’s necessary to execute him. It’s that simple.

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

Every person has the truth in his heart. No matter how complicated his circumstances, no matter how others look at him from the outside, and no matter how deep or shallow the truth dwells in his heart, once his heart is pieced with a crystal needle, the truth will gush forth like a geyser.

Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.

The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.

The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.

I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don’t argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.

At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way [my father] could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.

No one in the final analysis really fails to become a Christian because of lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with God.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.