“This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.”

There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.

The Jews are not a nation!

Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

Quanity has it’s own quality.

You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.

We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.

When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.

Words are one thing – deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother

The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages…onward, to victory!

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

If they were meant to be together they would find a way to do it.

The worse feeling is when someone makes you feel special, then suddenly leaves you hanging, and you have to act like you don’t care at all.

When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

I’ve come too far, and I don’t know how to get back.

Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat.

They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.

That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.