Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

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

We tend to get what we expect.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

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

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

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

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

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

Example is leadership.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.