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

We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.

You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.

Don’t be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

Those who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.

Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

But I can’t listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.

One cannot live in society and be free from society.

The goal of socialism is communism.

But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.

The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

All of our lives we seem to be searching for something only to find it was there all along.

We’re all looking for something, but all it really is, is love in some way or another.

If you’re searching for peace but don’t know where to start, remember you hold the key within. You will find it there.

We’re all wanderers on this journey. We’re all looking and searching for a way. We can all find it.

Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.