Hope

"Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism."

"But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove."

"I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie!’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had."

"I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before."

"Hope does not leave without being given permission."

"Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle."

"A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel."

"Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures."

"Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all."

"The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too."

"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"

"Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été."

"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."

"You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker"

"The first duty of a man is to think for himself"

"People have hope because they cannot see Death standing behind them."

"It was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past."

"Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will."

"Maybe love was meant to save us from ourselves."

"But she loves me. Me. Just the way I am."