“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.”

We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.

As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.

Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.

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

No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.

The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.

Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.

The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy’s cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

I hope you find grace in the spaces in between your racing thoughts and melancholy – be kind to your beautiful mind.

I’ve definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it’s a little more raw.

I am not the kind of lost that needs finding. I am the kind of lost that needs healing.

Be kind to all and severe to thyself.

Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this kind of film. For me, those kinds of films are ridiculous. They don’t make sense.

Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.