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

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.

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

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.

It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is no unemployment and pauperism, where a person does not tremble because tomorrow he may lose his job, home and bread.

A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.

The cortex is the enemy.

It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.

Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

You’re holding the world and its woes. But in the end who’s holding you?

I don’t wish jail on nobody, not even my worst enemies.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.