Vladimir Lenin

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

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

Every society is three meals away from chaos.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the ‘experience of the revolution’ than to write about it.

Competition becomes transformed into monopoly. The result is immense progress in the socialisation of production. In particular, the process of technical invention and improvement becomes socialised.

Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the ‘working masses’.

I was down there, and I watched our police and our firemen, down on 7-11, down at the World Trade Center, right after it came down

The centerpiece of [Trump’s] press conference with Putin, bitterly condemned by elite opinion, was his effort to discredit Mueller. The tactic is succeeding quite well…polls show that Mueller’s public image is at an all-time low.

As a marketing society, the US is to an unusual degree based on propaganda. The public relations industry, which is a huge industry, is a US-invented industry which spends billions of dollars on what they call ‘controlling the public mind’.

There are all the activist groups on every imaginable topic – solidarity groups, environmental and feminist groups – sectors of these movements do very valuable work.

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

There is no way you’re going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would’ve killed 300,000.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

I would have set out very quickly the relationship with Europe.

You don’t have to set limits on your talent and your ambition – or those of your children. You don’t have to be grateful to survive in a world made by others.

Quite apart from the superpower confrontation, the US was committed to restoring the traditional conservative order. To achieve this aim, it was necessary to destroy the anti-fascist resistance, often in favor of Nazi and fascist collaborators, to weaken…popular organizations.

[on Osama bin Laden’s death] no attempt whatsoever that I can see to arrest him and put him on trial, to go through that process.

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

But you really have to think through the talk about nonviolence. Sure, everybody’s in favor of nonviolence rather than violence, but under what conditions and when? Is it an absolute principle?