Vladimir Lenin

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

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

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.

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

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

I can’t listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.

Read, say, George Washington, a leading figure in the settler-colonial society we live in. His view was – his words – was that we have to ‘extirpate’ the Iroquois; they’re in our way. They were an advanced civilization.

Nuclear weapons are not a defence.

U.S. society doesn’t want to play the role of international policeman.

As far as oligarchs who acquire sports team abroad, and invest money abroad, I wouldn’t treat this phenomenon as something bad.

People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.

The U.S. government played a significant role [in the 1965 Indonesian genocide] by supplying the names of thousands of Communist Party leaders to the Indonesian army, which hunted down the leftists and killed them, former U.S. diplomats say…

Terrorists are always a threat to someone. If we’ll be scared of them, it means they have won.

Kim Jong Un just stated that the Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger and more powerful one than his, and my Button works!

The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.

The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

It is a waste of time and a pointless pursuit to speak truth to Henry Kissinger, or the CEO of General Motors, or others who exercise power in coercive institutions — truths that they already know well enough, for the most part.

I think the only difference between me and the other candidates is that I’m more honest and my women are more beautiful.

The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.