When you chop wood, splinters fly

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.

The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks.... And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.

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

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.