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

Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.

Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.

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.

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.

There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.

In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack–the direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.

A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.

The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.

Great moments are born great oppurtunity.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.