There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.

Ideology - that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the neccessary steadfastness and determination... Thanks to ideology, the twentieth century was fated to experience evildoing on a scale calculated in the millions.

Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.

Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.

I have always insisted on the need for local self-government for Russia, but I never opposed this model to Western democracy. On the contrary, I have tried to convince my fellow citizens by citing the examples of highly effective local self-government systems in Switzerland and New England, both of which I saw first-hand.

It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip it gives birth to people who are no better than beasts, those stock-exchange people with greedy appetites beyond restraint.