“One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.”

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.

For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the – class as having one too few.

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.

If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.

The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.

What is in one is in the whole, and therefore, ultimately, Each soul is responsible for the whole world.

The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.

One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage