Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form an opinion of everything, and do everything consciously.

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

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

The goal of socialism is communism.

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.

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

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

I know what you're afraid of. It's not pain, or solitude. It's indignity you can't stand, Hannibal, you're like a cat that way.

Truth is the old way. Truth dates back to the time when your word was your bond, and you didn't need papers in a language you couldn't understand to compel you to act honestly.

If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.

A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith in the gods. So from time to time, he falls into error.

Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Every president, if you watch what they look like when they come into office, you can see their hair turn white because it's such a hard job.

I can't imagine a day without coffee. I can't imagine!

Education is a human right with immense power to transform

Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead.