“It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.”

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.

Don’t be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

Those who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.

Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

But I can’t listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.

One cannot live in society and be free from society.

The goal of socialism is communism.

But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.

I don’t care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.

I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.

Surrender, dear- There are so many, many things you will only find if you let go of your fears.

Bears, I muttered, adding a new fear to the pile. That would be just her luck, wouldn’t it? Stray bear in town. OF course it would head straight for Bella.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.