“When you chop wood, splinters fly.”

A man’s eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past

Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.

Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.

It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

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.

Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!

Quantity has a quality all its own.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.

You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

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

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.

She is fading she is falling she is flying.

Hurricanes and airplanes, we fly higher than the end of time.

Fly me to the moon but desert me there that I might finally breathe.

Fly like a butterfly in the fields like they did in the time of yore, fly like a butterfly in my heart like you never did from the time of yore.

And how can you be so bad for me when I feel like I’m flying?

And she started flying, just like the beautiful butterfly she is.

The day I am not able to fly will be a sad day for me.

You healed my broken wings with your soothing love and taught me how to fly again one step at a time.