Vladimir Lenin

There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel!

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.

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

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

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

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

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Demographers affirm that choosing to have a second child is already a potential choice in favour of a third.

There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.

I can only go one way. I’ve not got a reverse gear.

The North has been held back by out of touch Westminster politicians. Let’s hand power to northern communities to manage their transport systems.

America will start winning again, winning like never before.

John McCain fought in Vietnam – I think that he has enough civilian blood on his hands.

…most of the world’s fossil-fuel reserves must remain in the ground if an environmental disaster for humankind is to be averted, but under the logic of state-supported capitalist institutions, the private owners of those reserves are racing to exploit them to the fullest.

Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is no unemployment and pauperism, where a person does not tremble because tomorrow he may lose his job, home and bread.

Firstly, it is through the growth of the economy itself, that’s the main source of additional resources. It is also the more effective use of existing resources, adjustment in some senses of our macro-economic plans and of course adjustments to our tax policy.

Anti-Semitism is dangerous for the toilers, for it is a false track which diverts them from the proper road and leads them into the jungle. Hence, Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable and bitter enemies of anti-Semitism. In the U.S.S.R., anti-Semitism is strictly prosecuted as a phenomenon hostile to the Soviet system. According to the laws of the U.S.S.R. active anti-Semites are punished with death.

The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.

Bike is the most democratic transport vehicle. Bike is the most daring, challenging as it gives its owner the tempting feeling of freedom, that is why one can say without any exaggeration, bike is a symbol of freedom.

Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things.