One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters.

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.