“Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.”

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.

We are not shooting enough professors.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don’t eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.

But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.

Hammer your thoughts into unity.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

A common soldier will make an empire, but he will eventually meet his fate and be condemned to the Great Rock.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

Give me unexpected whether it is good or bad, I learn from it all. As you build or break me in the end, I will stand tall.

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.