Die, but do not retreat.
You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.
The art of leadership is a serious matter. One must not lag behind a movement, because to do so is to become isolated from the masses. But one must not rush ahead, for to rush ahead is to lose contact with the masses. He who wished to lead a movement must conduct a fight on two fronts–against those who lag behind and those who rush ahead.
Quantity has a quality all its own.
We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.
The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.
Writers are the engineers of human souls.
The think I remember most about Brooklyn was how much I wanted to get out of Brooklyn.
Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain’t that a big enough majority in any town?
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
As parents we’re not nearly as computer literate as our children are.
Don’t wait until you’re in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
You cant change what you dont acknowledge.
I am not prejudiced in any way.
The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.
I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
If only I had known then the speed with which she could die, maybe I wouldn’t have become the hemlock.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
