The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

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

You must never believe all these things which the scientists say because they always want more than they can get-they are never satisfied.

I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.