Vladimir Lenin

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.

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

Socialism means keeping account of everything. You will have socialism if you take stock of every piece of iron and cloth.

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

One man with a gun can control 100 without one. … Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms.

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

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.

When the Americans could no longer protect Barbie, they moved him over to the Vatican-run ‘ratline’, where Croatian Nazi priests and others managed to spirit him off to Latin America. There he continued his career as a big drug lord and narco-trafflcker.

The ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren’t enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.

Under the Rule of Law…the individual is free to pursue his personal ends and desires, certain that the powers of government will not be used deliberately to frustrate his efforts.

How it is we have so much information, but know so little?

I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy.

How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

I was shocked more than most white people to find we had a black President!

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

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

Labour has the responsibility to give a lead where the government will not. We need to bring people together, hold the government to account, oppose austerity and set out a path to exit that will protect jobs and incomes.

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects.

I’m not sure if Donald Trump is the answer, but I do think that the departure from traditional politicians may be the answer. I’m not sure if he is, but I like the idea of getting away from career politicians.

I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.