The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Every man must die. But first he must live.

Life is neither good or evil$$$ but only a place for good and evil.

Political power grows out of the barrel of the gun.

Don't give a child a fish but show him how to fish.

Women hold up half the sky.

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Only death dignifies our sufferings in the eyes of others.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us$$$ to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also$$$ it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse$$$ the illicit$$$ the absurd.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.