“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.”

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.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

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.

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy’s purpose.

You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you’ll do anything to get it. Then you’ll get it. It’s the only way you’ll get it.

Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.

Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.

If the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn’t need foreign enemies – it will fall apart on its own.

Let my enemies devour each other.