“One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.”

The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.

We are not shooting enough professors.

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

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.

There can be nothing more abominable than religion.

The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.

I’ve realized that somebody who’s tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.