"Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist."

"The state is not abolished, it withers away."

"Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to die rather than cease to obey those whom they, their fathers and grandfathers, had called their masters; and submitted to be trampled on and horse-whipped by."

"Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim."

"The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe."

"Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe."

"Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth. But it is even infinitely more than this. It is the prime basic condition for all human existence, and this to such an extent that, in a sense, we have to say that labour created man himself."

"The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a wrath of which the rage of 1795 gives no true idea. The war of the poor against the rich will be the bloodiest ever waged."

"How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?"

"All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me."

"You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you."

"If it's mentionable, it's manageable."

"The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground."

"Evil is whatever distracts."

"First impressions are always unreliable."

"Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached."

"They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong"

"It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves."

"All language is but a poor translation."

"I am free and that is why I am lost."

"I am a cage, in search of a bird."

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines — so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings."

"The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands. "Toward a New architecture" July 14, 1957"

"Philip Johnson is a highbrow. A highbrow is a man educated beyond his capacity. His house is a box of glass — not shelter. The meaning of the word shelter includes privacy."