The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‚blackness‘ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong.

I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There’s no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

I’m opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

People love conspiracy theories.

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Christians are not limited to any church.

My mother always used to say, ‚Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God‘ – that’s what she always said. The same God with different names.

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

It’s one thing to be religious, but it’s another thing to make religion your policy.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

I don’t think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there’s layer after layer of management – a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

Steve Jobs‘ ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.