“Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.”

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.

Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.

The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.

Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be in itself a power.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.

Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.

Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.

Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine