There is nothing more practical than a good theory.

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.

The highest peace is the peace between opposites.

Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.

It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.

When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt.

Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: The energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the minerals treasure house of Central and Southern Africa.

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.

Soviet people are better off materially and richer spiritually.

The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants.

A man who takes into consideration the feelings of others even when arranging the manner of his own death shows a nobility of character which compels the admiration of all classes.

Line of control should be a garden, a place of art and cultural festival.

If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn't a single war started by anarchists?

What Saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it?

There is no end to the promotion. There is no end to the possibilities. You can continue to promote a book for years, literally.

Death came, Death went, but Commerce flowed Eternal.

I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

Briggsy's performances down the years have been pure magic. If they could bottle his ability and sell if at drama schools they'd make a fortune.

(You) don't leave the chicken to watch the feed.