Vladimir Lenin

Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.

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

It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward.

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

What a waste that we lost Mussolini. He is a first-rate man who would have led our party to power in Italy.

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

I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.

You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don’t want to learn it themselves.

So we’re destroying the environment for organized human life. We’re threatening a terminal disaster with regular nuclear confrontations. Anybody who has looked at the record, which is shocking, would have to conclude that it’s a miracle that we’ve survived this long.

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.

Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.

Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.

Well, the Washington consensus – which is basically designed for the Third World to make it that way, and keep it that way – it’s now being applied not just to the Third World countries, but to the rich industrial societies, with the United States and Britain in the lead.

Nation-state systems basically arose in Europe in their modern sense, and they’re extremely unnatural social organizations. They had to be imposed on the populations by violence, extreme violence.

I love soccer.

I believe health care is a basic right. If education – you’re entitled to an education, why wouldn’t you be entitled to adequate health care? Period.

Cointelpro really told you something about the government. Therefore, it was basically suppressed, it is still suppressed so that people don’t know anything about it. Watergate, on the other hand, was a minor scandal.

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

There is no longer anything I can fear. There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn’t any pain I haven’t known.