Joseph Stalin

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

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

The situation is that in Germany capitalism has remained, classes and class struggle have remained which all the same will break into the open, which includes also the field of struggle of parties representing opposing classes just as it broke through in, let us say, Spain.

A man’s eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past

In the Soviet Union, it’s takes more courage to retreat than advance.

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

My English is very bad.

Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election.

Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.

If a young man wants to fit himself for the Politics of tomorrow, let him fit himself into essential industry for the purpose of learning how best to conduct it for the whole public good.

My first four jobs were minimum wage or close to it.

In almost any country, probably in Russia in particular, it’s fashionable to criticise people in power. If you come out in support of someone like me, you’re going to be accused of trying to ingratiate yourself.

Diplomacy is a particularly unwelcome option, unless it’s pursued under the gun. The US has very little popular support for its goals in the Third World. This isn’t surprising, since it’s trying to impose structures of domination and exploitation.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics.

The word terrorism has a meaning, it is defined in the US and international law and so on. But that’s not the definition we are allowed to use. We use the word terrorism in a way which means there’s terrorism against us but not our terrorism against them. That’s not terrorism. So for example, if we use the word “terrorism” in its litteral meaning, the most extreme terrorist operation in the world today would be Obama’s global assassination campaign, the drone campaign

The case for individual freedom rests largely upon the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.

I was there because I wanted to see a fitting memorial to everyone who has died in every terrorist incident everywhere.

Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.