You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays, every — Charles Manson

"Nobody. Im nobody. Im a tramp, a bum, a hobo. Im a boxcar and a jug of wine. And a straight razor if you get too close to me."

"Progress? Theres no such thing as progress. Theres only change. You dig a hole in the ground, you build up a city, and you fight a war, and you call it progress?"

"Were all our own prisons, we are each all our own wardens and we do our own time. I cant judge anyone else. What other people do is not really my affair unless they approach me with it. Prisons in your mind. Cant you see Im free?"

"Rubin, I am not of your world. Ive spent all my life in prison. When I was a child, I was an orphan and too ugly to be adopted. Now I am too beautiful to be set free."

"Money is a game. Its only real to the people who work for it. Its a monopoly game. Its a game of paper. Its all on paper."

"So how do you communicate to a whole group of people? You stand up and take the worst fear symbol [swastika] and say "There, now Ive got your fear. Now Ive got your fear." And your fear is your power and your power is your control. Im your king of this whole planet. Im gonna rule this whole world."

"As long as you keep getting born, it’s okay to die sometimes."

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that theres free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."

"History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles. When you go to Mexico City through space, you find it a sort of cross between modern Madrid and modern Chicago, with additions of its own; but if you go to Mexico City through history, back only 500 years, you will find it as distant as though it were on another planet: inhabited by cultivated barbarians, sensitive and cruel, highly organized and still in the Copper Age, a collection of startling, of unbelievable contrasts."

"As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually ‘thinking’ it, that is, with going through the logical acts involved in verbal formulation of it. As has been pointed out, often and correctly, the advantage of mathematics—the model of all neo-positivistic thinking—lies in just this ‘intellectual economy.’ Complicated logical operations are carried out without actual performance of the intellectual acts upon which the mathematical and logical symbols are based. … Reason … becomes a fetish, a magic entity that is accepted rather than intellectually experienced."

"Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was still scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!"

"A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all. (23)"