“For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.”

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

Believe, obey, fight.

Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.

Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.

The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.

There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual; between the State which demands and the individual who attempts to evade such demands. Because the individual, left to himself, unless he be a saint or hero, always refuses to pay taxes, obey laws, or go to war.

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

Fascism is a religious concept.

I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.

National pride has no need of the delirium of race.

Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep

For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.

Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them.

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty…

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.

In London the average person is paying 50 per cent of their income on rent. Just think how much better off people would feel if that number was a lot lower.

I think what I realized is that I can’t believe I made it to 50 years old.

If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it’s not that much time away from home.

Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.

I probably write a poem every 50 years.

Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I’d take them all to dinner. All runaways.