“I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.”

Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man.

To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.

People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.

Perseus wore a magic cap down over his eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Education is free. Freedoom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Change the economic base and you will change human beings.

We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

It’s never too late to realize what you want in your life and it’s never wrong to fight for it.

We’ll fight through this crisis together, and emerge stronger than ever.

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they’ve got nothing to lose.

I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.