Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul.

He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.

Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty hours a day and I never get tired