Vladimir Lenin

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the ‘experience of the revolution’ than to write about it.

The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.

For example, a US corporation that has an outlet in Puerto Rico may decide to take its profits in Puerto Rico, because of tax rebates. It shifts its prices around, using what’s called “transfer pricing,” so it doesn’t seem to be making a profit here.

Some experts believe that somebody is deceiving WikiLeaks, that its reputation is being undermined in order for it to be used for political purposes.

The leaders of the world’s largest economies agreed during the November 2008 G20 summit not to create barriers hindering global trade and capital flows. Russia shares these principles.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.

America will start winning again, winning like never before.

The international monetary fund recently [2014] did a study in which it concluded that virtually the entire profit of the big banks comes from the government insurance policy.

Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military.

Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it.

Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.

In the US, first of all, the electoral system has been almost totally shredded. For a long time it’s been pretty much run by private concentrated spending but now it’s over the top. Elections increasingly over the years have been [public relations] extravaganzas.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher’s emphasis on enterprise was right.

The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind.

Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we’re doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change.

I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.