music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.

Only when we succeed in creating such an order under which people receive for their labor from the society not according to the quantity and quality of labor, but according to their needs, will it be possible to say that we have built up a communist society.

The art of leadership is a serious matter. One must not lag behind a movement, because to do so is to become isolated from the masses. But one must not rush ahead, for to rush ahead is to lose contact with the masses. He who wished to lead a movement must conduct a fight on two fronts--against those who lag behind and those who rush ahead.

In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother

This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.

Quantity has a quality all its own.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.