No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
The seed of revolution is repression.
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.