“You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.”

In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.

The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks. And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.

There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.

It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is no unemployment and pauperism, where a person does not tremble because tomorrow he may lose his job, home and bread.

Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army.

I trust no one, not even myself.

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.

She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.

The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

There’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.