Vladimir Lenin

Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one. … Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms.

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

I can’t listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.

The introduction, for example, of restrictive tariffs on steel, on aluminum, not only for Europe but also for Canada and Mexico, in essence these are also sanctions… They are related to the pragmatic national interests of the United States.

In a Canadian-style insurance system, the costs are distributed in the same way that taxes are. If the tax system is progressive…then the wealthy will also pay more of the costs of health care.

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as [inherently] exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.

Edward Bernays’ first great achievement, that sort of made a star out of him, was a public relations campaign trying to get women to smoke. So he had models walking down Fifth Avenue smoking cigarettes and showing how it makes you beautiful and slim.

The more intermediaries there are, the more problems there are.

I’m actually proud because I beat [the] Clinton dynasty. I beat [the] Bush dynasty. Now I guess, hopefully I’m in the process of beating very dishonest intelligence because, what they did was incredible.

Like most technology, the internet has mixed effects. It’s a neutral instrument.

Primarily the United States has overstepped its national borders, and in every area.

I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century… This is a problem that cannot be postponed.

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.