Die, but do not retreat.
Anti-Semitism is dangerous for the toilers, for it is a false track which diverts them from the proper road and leads them into the jungle. Hence, Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable and bitter enemies of anti-Semitism. In the U.S.S.R., anti-Semitism is strictly prosecuted as a phenomenon hostile to the Soviet system. According to the laws of the U.S.S.R. active anti-Semites are punished with death.
As you can see, even when [Adolf] Hitler desires to speak for peace, he cannot dispense with threats. This is symptomatic.
Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army
Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.
I trust no one, not even myself.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
I thought about writing a poem explaining how when you are lost at sea, even if you are rescued and survive, you never really come back. Then I realized everyone that’s ever been in love would already understand.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
We may appear to be mean, but we’re really only frightened.
Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.
Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
Love cannot be defined, reduced, or ignored. It exists just the same for me, for you, for everyone.
There’s a part of me I can’t get back. A little girl grew up too fast. All it took was once, I’ll never be the same.
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and all achievement.
You have to figure out what that is, and you have to make a plan to get to it. And the plan has got to have a timeline. You have to choose something that you can afford to do and then lock it in and passionately do it.
At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That’s wonderful, and I’m happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?
The people change, the common denominator is you.
