Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

Communism begins where atheism begins.

Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.

The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.