Vladimir Lenin

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

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

Socialism means keeping account of everything. You will have socialism if you take stock of every piece of iron and cloth.

Competition becomes transformed into monopoly. The result is immense progress in the socialisation of production. In particular, the process of technical invention and improvement becomes socialised.

Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.

In the history of modern socialism this is a phenomenon, that the strife of the various trends within the socialist movement has from national become international.

Why did the U.S. decide to normalize relations with Cuba?…Not a magnanimous gesture of courage to bring Cuba-to protect Cuba from its isolation, to save them from their isolation; quite the opposite, it was to save the U.S. from its isolation with the rest of the world.

The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.

As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own… Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland.

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.

The CIA is mainly a branch of the executive to carry out secret and usually illegal activities that the executive branch wants. It wants them to be kept secret because it knows that the public won’t accept them. So it’s highly undemocratic even domestically.

The world is changed by idealists.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

I know words. I have the best words.

Since the white working class cannot be mobilized to support the class enemy on the basis of their actual programs, the ‘radical insurgency’ called ‘the Republican Party’ appeals to its constituency on what are called ‘social-cultural issues’: religion, fear, racism, nationalism.

The American Petroleum Institute, backed by the Chamber of Commerce and the other business lobbies, has intensified its efforts to persuade the public to dismiss concerns about anthropogenic global warming – with considerable success, as polls indicate.

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

The more powerful you are, the more you dominate others, the more you create justifications for that in ideology and education and media and so on. If you’ve got your boot on someone else’s neck, it’s typical to provide a justification for it.

I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

I was shocked more than most white people to find we had a black President!

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.