There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.