You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

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.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.

Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

I was born in revolution.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.