“Only force rules. Force is the first law.”

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

I respected my father, but I loved my mother.

Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.

Why nationalize industry when you can nationalize the people?

I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.

The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.

Is it not a shame to leave the capabilities of a nation at the mercy of citizens who dispose of these capabilities lightly and shamelessly, as if they were playing cards.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

God’s and beasts, that is what our world is made of.

Great liars are also great magicians.

What we suffer from today is an excess of education.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate – namely, that theory that all men are created equal.

My spirit will rise from the grave and the world will see I was right.

Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.

Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army.

One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.

The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.

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

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Those who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.