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.

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.

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

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

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.

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

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

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

I trust no one, not even myself.

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

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

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

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.

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

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

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

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