If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.

The goal of socialism is communism.

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are.

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?

There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.

I don't care what the New York Times says about me, and no one I care about cares what the New York Times says about me.

Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

There is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it.

When you play somebody, you pick up a lot of their gestures, his voice, the way he speaks, his body language. You don't often get that opportunity.

My mind is my own church.