This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-Tung.

I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.

The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.

Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist.

The man without emotions is the one to fear.

It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.

I think there is a lot of overexplaining both in writing and acting. People don't need to be hit on the head.

They keep telling me don't save you. If I ignore all that advice and something isn't right then who will I complain to?

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

I've laid my friends bare.

I just feel like the songs that come out are the songs that come.

I owe my success to expansion pitching, a short right field fence, and my hollow bats.

Even if you want one drop of respect you have to take birth in this material world again.