Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin

To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.

It's not about what you accomplish - it's about what you take away from your experiences and how you handle them.

Failing one time — or even several times — doesn’t make you a failure any more than losing one game makes you a loser.

Life is a narrative that you have a hand in writing.

We can have enhanced devolution - greater powers in Scotland - but within the strength, security and stability of the United Kingdom, and I think that's what most Scots want.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

I don't think of myself as a particularly nostalgic person.

The one [The Beverly Hillbillies] flaw in this is that you can't hear the people laughing.

Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.

Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom she's romantically besotted.

Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions