When I go to bed, I ask God to give me one more day tomorrow. When I get it, I'm excited and grateful.
The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.
The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.
The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - especially their lives.
The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles.
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.
Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it. . . I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it. That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say. . . . I don't like overdubs, never liked them. . . . The music business doesn't interest me anymore. . . Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does. . . . I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.
The alarm must be sounded because it is the economic and social system of capitalism and imperialism that prevents the urgently needed full mobilization of the potential economic surplus and the attainment of rates of economic advancement that can be secured with its help.
The majority of people mistakenly feel like they don't need a live musical experience.
If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the mass media.