Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.’ The minute you hear ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, watch out… because in a truly free nation, no one has to tell you you’re free.

Love is a fluxuating thing, not a fixed thing. That's why we don't understand what's happening.

We must look at alternatives objectively, and not try to fit the future into our present social mould.

The system you're brought up under tries to make you like the people that succeeded in that system.

All the world's people should share all the world's resources.

Social change cannot come above the intellect, it comes about by people suffering. And the more people are related to that, the more they lose respect for an existing government. They will seek another direction. If there are too many people who seek a new direction, then the existing government calls upon the army and police to manage society – that is called fascism.

There is no way you can think outside of your culture.