Vladimir Lenin

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important-if not the most important-phenomena of modern capitalist economy.

Every society is three meals away from chaos.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay

The business classes are very class-conscious-they’re constantly fighting a bitter class war to improve their power and diminish opposition. Occasionally this is recognized.

The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

Obviously, I’m always thinking about it. A successor, in the ordinary sense of the word – no, the Russian people, the voters will decide who that will be. But of course I think that we should raise a new, young generation of leaders, responsible people who will be able to take on the responsibility of Russia.

Case by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs that may be severe, even in a society that lacks such means of control as death squads, psychiatric prisons, or extermination camps.

As the Cold War came to a definitive end, the Bush Administration created a Center for Defense Trade to stimulate arms sales while proposing government guarantees of up to $1 billion in loans for purchase of US arms.

My use of social media is not presidential – it’s MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL. Make America Great Again!

When the victims are classified as less than human … Communists, terrorists, or whatever may be the contemporary term of art – their extermination raises no moral qualms. And the agents of extermination are praiseworthy moderates-our Nazis …

United we stand, divided we fall is one of the oldest and truest slogans of the Labour movement.

We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue.

As state capitalism developed into the modern era, economic, political and ideological systems have increasingly been taken over by vast institutions of private tyranny that are about as close to the totalitarian ideal as any that humans have so far constructed.

There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man’s moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?