“The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.”

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.

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don’t eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.

But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

Don’t let others dictate who you are. Decide for yourself.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.

Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.

If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.

I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.

We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.