“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.”

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.

He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.

Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.

Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.

There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.

We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”

Love is action. It isn’t just talk, and it never was.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.