“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”

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.

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.

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

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

But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not “in the name of capitalism,” but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

Better to starve free than be a fat slave.