"The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production."

"The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future."

"The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money."

"Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society."

"The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time."

"It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us."

"I also remember the second band I was in ever. We were called Hybrid. We got a show at this local street fair, and we were playing on the back of a flatbed truck. There was an ad in the paper, and it said that 'Hybird' is playing. I was so mad."

"Justice is the means bywhich established injustices are sanctioned."