“This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.”

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.

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

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother

The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages…onward, to victory!

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.

To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.

If you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner.

But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Life is short, we never when it’ll be our last breath.

Loneliness is a black hole, a darkness, a frightening negative state almost like death.

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.