A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
When everything has to be right, something isn't.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
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.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
