Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

How do you tell a communist Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)

The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

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

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward -- or go back. He who now talks about the ''freedom of the press'' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had the opportunity to make them.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Vladimir That passed the time. Estragon It would have passed in any case. Vladimir Yes, but not so rapidly.

Vladimir: That passed the time.Estragon: It would have passed in any case.Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly.

A communist is a person who publicly airs his dirty Lenin.