Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.

I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having experienced applied socialism in a country where the alternative has been realized, I certainly will not speak for it. The well-known Soviet mathematician Shafarevich, a member of the Soviet Academy of Science, has written a brilliant book under the title Socialism; it is a profound analysis showing that socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.

I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors.