An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as I believed there was a Devil... Suddenly the light broke through to me and I knew this God was a lie... For indeed it is a silly story, and each generation nowadays swallows it with greater difficulty... Why do people go on pretending about this Christianity?

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin