I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is.

It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.

. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.