Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything.

We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.

The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev.

I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon

Often we can't find the power of life even when we're born with it

a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes! Then fire low!

The more I learn, the more excited I get.

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Until you get a guidance from above you cannot be sure; but to get this guidance it requires time and sadhana.