“There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.”

If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness

Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Conscience is God present in man.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.

In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.

Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.

Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world. The Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another – no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.

It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

People have told me that Ive helped them feel confident, like they can say things they want to say. They can talk about feminism in class without people calling them a lesbian. Thats so amazing that I can make someone feel like that.