It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

I trust no one, not even myself.

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

Death solves all problems no man no problem.

A single death is a tragedy a million deaths is a statistic.

The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man no problem.

A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.

Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx's proletarion socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

There's nothing worse than talking about yourself to find out that you're not that interesting.

In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.