“In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.”

I trust no one, not even myself.

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.

This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.

The press must grow day in and day out – it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.

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 death of a beloved is an amputation.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost – unloved she might as well die.

Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.