Universal, equal, direct and secret elections in the U.S.S.R. will be a whip in the hands of the population against poorly functioning organs of government.

The people who cast the votes decide nothing; the people who count the votes decide everything.

Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to a vague regional loyalty than they will for a world authority. Later the regions can be brought together all the way into a single world dictatorship.

There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.

There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.