I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man.

There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.

I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.

I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.

Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.