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

Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

He who does not work shall not eat.

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

The only one who doesn’t make mistakes is the one who doesn’t do anything.

We are not shooting enough professors.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.

The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.

Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?

Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.

Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.

Being is seeing in the human dimension.

In the particular is contained the universal.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.