“Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.”

Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.

It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.

Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!

Quantity has a quality all its own.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.

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

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

When you chop wood, splinters fly.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.

How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don’t even dare walk on the grass?

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.

The politics of communal majority are made by its own members born in it.

War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

I am a patriot. I would think there are no politicians who are not patriots.

Politics is the art of the possible.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy.

Our proposals are not just good policy. They are good politics.