Badminton is not as glamorous as cricket.
The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.
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.
I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.
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.
Two premature babies was not a genetic thing; we were just unlucky.
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
A bran' new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a journey beginning. But a well-worn book also has its pleasures, the soft caress and give of the paper's edges, the comfort, like an old shawl, of an oft-read story.
He [Barack Obama] is been boffo at fundraising - 220 fundraisers, and he raised something approaching $1 billion.