A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Vladimir Lenin A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution. Vladimir Lenin Any cook should be able to run the country. Vladimir Lenin Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot. Vladimir Lenin Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps. Vladimir Lenin Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. Vladimir Lenin Crime is a product of social excess. Vladimir Lenin Democracy is indispensable to socialism. Vladimir Lenin Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes. Vladimir Lenin Every cook has to learn how to govern the state. Vladimir Lenin Fascism is capitalism in decay. Vladimir Lenin Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. Vladimir Lenin Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. Vladimir Lenin

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever. Vladimir Lenin If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. Vladimir Lenin If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years. Vladimir Lenin It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. Vladimir Lenin It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed. Vladimir Lenin No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses. Vladimir Lenin One man with a gun can control 100 without one. Vladimir Lenin Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism. Vladimir Lenin Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin. Vladimir Lenin Sometimes - history needs a push. Vladimir Lenin The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. Vladimir Lenin The goal of socialism is communism. Vladimir Lenin The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as

death. Vladimir Lenin The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. Vladimir Lenin The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart. Vladimir Lenin The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses. Vladimir Lenin The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. Vladimir Lenin There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel. Vladimir Lenin To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics. Vladimir Lenin Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing. Vladimir Lenin When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. Vladimir Lenin When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state. Vladimir Lenin While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State. Vladimir Lenin Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement. Vladimir Lenin

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. Vladimir Lenin A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron. Joseph Stalin Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem. Joseph Stalin Death solves all problems - no man, no problem. Joseph Stalin Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. Joseph Stalin Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. Joseph Stalin Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs. Joseph Stalin History shows that there are no invincible armies. Joseph Stalin I believe in one thing only, the power of human will. Joseph Stalin I trust no one, not even myself. Joseph Stalin Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas. Joseph Stalin If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. Joseph Stalin If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

Joseph Stalin In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance. Joseph Stalin It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. Joseph Stalin Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. Joseph Stalin One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. Joseph Stalin Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party. Joseph Stalin The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. Joseph Stalin The only real power comes out of a long rifle. Joseph Stalin

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do. Joseph Stalin The Pope? How many divisions has he got? Joseph Stalin The writer is the engineer of the human soul. Joseph Stalin We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns? Joseph Stalin When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use. Joseph Stalin

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves. Joseph Stalin I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear. Pol Pot I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country. Pol Pot I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader. Pol Pot It's up to history to judge. Pol Pot Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies. Pol Pot When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that. Pol Pot A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. Mao Tse-Tung All reactionaries are paper tigers. Mao Tse-Tung Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. Mao Tse-Tung Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically. Mao Tse-Tung Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work. Mao Tse-Tung Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. Mao Tse-Tung

I voted for you during your last election. Mao Tse-Tung In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Longdistance running is particularly good training in perseverance. Mao Tse-Tung In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements. Mao Tse-Tung In waking a tiger, use a long stick. Mao Tse-Tung Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it. Mao Tse-Tung Learn from the masses, and then teach them. Mao Tse-Tung Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. Mao Tse-Tung Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. Mao Tse-Tung Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive. Mao Tse-Tung People like me sound like a lot of big cannons. Mao Tse-Tung Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Mao Tse-Tung Political work is the life-blood of all economic work. Mao Tse-Tung Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. Mao Tse-Tung

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. Mao Tse-Tung The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't. Mao Tse-Tung The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it. Mao Tse-Tung The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship. Mao Tse-Tung The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea. Mao Tse-Tung There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. Mao Tse-Tung We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting. Mao Tse-Tung We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view. Mao Tse-Tung Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts. Mao Tse-Tung Women hold up half the sky. Mao Tse-Tung A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. Karl Marx A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism. Karl Marx Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine

upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. Karl Marx Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. Karl Marx Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. Karl Marx Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. Karl Marx Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. Karl Marx Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer. Karl Marx Democracy is the road to socialism. Karl Marx Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. Karl Marx For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him. Karl Marx From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. Karl Marx Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. Karl Marx History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. Karl Marx

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. Karl Marx I am not a Marxist. Karl Marx In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. Karl Marx In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. Karl Marx It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves. Karl Marx It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. Karl Marx Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed. Karl Marx Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite! Karl Marx Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. Karl Marx Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases. Karl Marx Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state. Karl Marx Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will

incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science. Karl Marx Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. Karl Marx Nothing can have value without being an object of utility. Karl Marx On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects. Karl Marx Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. Karl Marx Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. Karl Marx Religion is the opium of the masses. Karl Marx Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. Karl Marx Revolutions are the locomotives of history. Karl Marx Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex. Karl Marx Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. Karl Marx The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future. Karl Marx The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is

completely insignificant in comparison. Karl Marx The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. Karl Marx The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. Karl Marx The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. Karl Marx The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. Karl Marx The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. Karl Marx The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. Karl Marx The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together. Karl Marx The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. Karl Marx The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. Karl Marx The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production. Karl Marx The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. Karl Marx

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. Karl Marx The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. Karl Marx The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. Karl Marx The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite. Karl Marx The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. Karl Marx The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. Karl Marx There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism. Karl Marx We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass. Karl Marx While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. Karl Marx Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. Karl Marx Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains. Karl Marx All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people. Adolf Hitler

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach. Adolf Hitler Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless. Adolf Hitler Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized. Adolf Hitler As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice. Adolf Hitler As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid. Adolf Hitler By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise. Adolf Hitler Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future. Adolf Hitler Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries. Adolf Hitler Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all. Adolf Hitler Great liars are also great magicians. Adolf Hitler Hate is more lasting than dislike. Adolf Hitler He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future. Adolf Hitler

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think. Adolf Hitler Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice. Adolf Hitler I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator. Adolf Hitler I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature. Adolf Hitler I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker. Adolf Hitler I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few. Adolf Hitler If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution. Adolf Hitler If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed. Adolf Hitler It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge. Adolf Hitler It is not truth that matters, but victory. Adolf Hitler Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. Adolf Hitler Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace. Adolf Hitler Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election. Adolf Hitler Strength lies not in defence but in attack. Adolf Hitler

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle. Adolf Hitler Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong. Adolf Hitler The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. Adolf Hitler The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force. Adolf Hitler The day of individual happiness has passed. Adolf Hitler The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others. Adolf Hitler The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Adolf Hitler The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it. Adolf Hitler The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category. Adolf Hitler The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence. Adolf Hitler The victor will never be asked if he told the truth. Adolf Hitler Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live. Adolf Hitler Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and

also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. Adolf Hitler

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction. Adolf Hitler What good fortune for governments that the people do not think. Adolf Hitler Who says I am not under the special protection of God? Adolf Hitler Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos. Adolf Hitler Words build bridges into unexplored regions. Adolf Hitler A jug fills drop by drop. Buddha All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain? Buddha An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. Buddha Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. Buddha Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence. Buddha Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. Buddha

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. Buddha Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule. Buddha He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes. Buddha Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. Buddha Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Buddha However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? Buddha I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. Buddha I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. Buddha In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. Buddha In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true. Buddha It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. Buddha It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. Buddha

It is better to travel well than to arrive. Buddha Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. Buddha Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. Buddha No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Buddha Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. Buddha The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. Buddha The mind is everything. What you think you become. Buddha The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. Buddha The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood. Buddha The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. Buddha The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. Buddha The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. Buddha The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Buddha There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. Buddha There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. Buddha There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. Buddha Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. Buddha Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. Buddha To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. Buddha To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Buddha To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. Buddha To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. Buddha Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two. Buddha Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. Buddha

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. Buddha We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. Buddha What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood? Buddha What we think, we become. Buddha Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. Buddha When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear. Buddha Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death. Buddha Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. Buddha You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. Buddha You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. Buddha You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. Buddha