I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

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

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

Revolutions are not made for export.

What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.

Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?

All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

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!

When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

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

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.

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

They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

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

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

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

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

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

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect ones wishes.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

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

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

I wouldn't change Buffy for anything and I wouldn't change the course in which she has evolved but it is nice to be able to do something that is a little different.

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.