A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.

Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel.

The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

If we had to kneel in order to live in peace, [ U.S. government] will have to kill us before.

Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another.

We do not have elections. But the great majority of the Cuban people supports its government.

One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.

Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.

The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view.

The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.

Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.

Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace.

...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.

It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

The main task of Socialism - the organization of Socialist production - remains still in the future.

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.

Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.

I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.

The fundamental principle is that no battle, combat, or skirmish is to be fought unless it will be won.

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

Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.

The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects.

Let's liquidate all the atomic bases in Cuba and in the U.S. and we are in complete agreement with that.

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

The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.

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