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

Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants, lands, banks, means of transportation, etc., remain untouched there, and, therefore, capitalism in Germany and Italy remains in full force.

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.

Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise. If now there is not a communist government in Paris, this is only because Russia has no an army which can reach Paris in 1945.

Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?