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

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.

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.

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.

Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.

It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.

Don’t do unto others what you don’t want done unto you.

Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.