“Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.”

Any cook should be able to run the country.

He who does not work shall not eat.

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

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.

Rulers who destroy men’s freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. … They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent.

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.

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

The Son of Man has authority over whatever has you paralyzed. Get up and walk.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ. A sense of peace will virtually always accompany His will and direction, even when the direction might not have been our personal preference.

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.