On the king's gate the moss grew gray;The king came not. They called him deadAnd made his eldest son one daySlave in his father's stead.
I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.
There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.
We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.
The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it (which would satisfy his scientific obligation), he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.
One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.
It is an illusion to think that the matter cannot be resolved through words.
One must conclude that, contrary to the established and current wisdom, a scenario describing the genesis of life on earth by chance and natural causes which can be accepted on the basis of fact and not faith has not been written.
When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.
The centre of the universe and only rotates on its axis without going from east to west, is a very dangerous attitude and one calculated not only to arouse all Scholastic philosophers and theologians but also to injure our holy faith by contradicting the Scriptures.
Everybody's in New York and, hopefully, my younger kids will go to college in New York and find something they want to do so they'll stay in the city