Leonid Brezhnev Quotes

We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.

Believe me, after the destruction of Chinese nuclear sites by our missiles, there won't be much time for the Americans to choose between the defense of their Chinese allies and peaceful co-existence with us.

There is nothing more practical than a good theory.

One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.

Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated to the interests of the Revolution, to the interests of socialism. That is why Communists and all fighters for socialism believe that the main aspect of the national question is unification of the working people, regardless of their national origin, in the common struggle against every type of oppression, and for a new social system which rules out exploitation of the working people.

The highest peace is the peace between opposites.

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.

Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.

We should not pour muck on ourselves.

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.