“When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.”

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this – who will count the votes, and how.

We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.

American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.

The United States should get rid of its militias.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

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

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.

The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks. And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.

There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.