Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

The USA and USSR will only agree when shrimps learn to fly.

If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!

Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

We and you ought not to pull on the ends of a rope which you have tied the knots of war. Because the more the two of us pull, the tighter the knot will be tied. And then it will be necessary to cut that knot, and what that would mean is not for me to explain to you. I have participated in two wars and know that war ends when it has rolled through cities and villages, everywhere sowing death and destruction. For such is the logic of war. If people do not display wisdom, they will clash like blind moles and then mutual annihilation will commence.

Let there be more corn and more meat and let there be no hydrogen bombs at all.