Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

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

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

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

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

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

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

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

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

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

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.