As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.
There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.
A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. . . . What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. . Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man -- and turns them into commodities. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.
If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.
I signed my deal when I was 11, and the success I had, no one could explain that to an adult, what's about to happen to them, much less a kid. There's not many people around who've experienced that.
We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.
Everybody's got their tools or their instruments, and it's fun to see how people expose themselves to their profession or their profession becomes who they are.