Vladimir Lenin

Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.

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

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

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

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

Every society is three meals away from chaos.

The chief evil is unlimited government…nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

[on Michelle Obama] She’s fundamentally honest – goes out there, speaks her mind, jokes. She doesn’t parse her words or select them with an antenna for political correctness.

It is difficult to say which is more menacing. But both of [points of war danger -Japan and Germany] exist and both are smoldering. In comparison with these two principal focal points of the war danger, the Italo-Ethiopian war represents an episode.

This American government – what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.

I think we should talk about what the objectives of the party are, whether that’s restoring the Clause Four as it was originally written or it’s a different one, but I think we shouldn’t shy away from public participation, public investment in industry, i would want us to have a set of objectives which does include public ownership of some necessary things such as rail.

The point is that since this is a business-run society, it’s also a propaganda-oriented society, because business is committed to marketing. The highest value in business is to deceive people into getting something, taking something that they don’t want.

The drug war not only gets rid of the superfluous population, it frightens everybody else. Drugs play a role similar to communism or terrorism, people huddle beneath the umbrella of authority for protection from the menace.

The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in Western Europe.

When I’ve talked about the idea of being President, I’m not saying I have any political views, I don’t have views on politics, I just have a view on humanity. On people. On the truth.

CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally. … Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.

A figure who receives money from abroad for his political work, and thus serves some foreign interest, cannot be a politician in Russia.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And do you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me.

A considerable share of the world’s population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.