“Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion.”

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.

Look back at history – those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.

The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of Europe, as the foundation of the United States of the World.

Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation – that is what makes it revolutionary – but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims – that is what makes it realistic.

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.

One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.

You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.

Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.

The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A ‘neutral’ position is tantamount to support of imperialism.

Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.

To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.

It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world.

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain – at least in a poor country like Russia – and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.

There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .

An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.

I think there’s something we all relate to about wanting to get to our most primal self.

If your stress is related to another person, finding forgiveness – changing your thoughts and energy around that person – can lower stress.

There’s music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you’re playing it or you’re receptive, as an audience.

An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.

A lot of time I like to sing music that people can relate to, but not necessarily put them in a depressed mood.