Quotes

Naivete in politics is worse than a crime.

The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

[from his instruction to Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the KGB] Of all the arts, the cinema is the most important for us, communists, to keep the people under control.

Destroy the family, you destroy the country.

Comrade Stalin [Joseph Stalin'] is unfit for leadership. He is too rude and undereducated.

The goal of socialism, is communism.

We are remembered while we disturb others.

As long as there is a state, there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.

Tell me who praises you, and I'll tell you where you went wrong.

The war must be waged for real, or not waged at all. There can be no middle ground here.

The smart one is not the one who doesn't make mistakes. There are no such people and there cannot be. Smart is the one who makes mistakes that are not very significant and who can and knows how to correct them easily and quickly.

Indifference is the silent support of the one who is strong, the one who dominates.

War is a test of all the economic and organizational forces of every nation.

Failure is not as dangerous as the fear of admitting defeat is dangerous.

Bitterness in general usually plays the worst role in politics.

By analyzing the mistakes of yesterday, we thereby learn to avoid mistakes today and tomorrow.

Politics is the concentrated expression of economics.

Only then will we learn to win, when we are not afraid to admit our defeats and shortcomings, when we look the truth, even the saddest one, straight in the face.

Honesty in politics is the result of strength, hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

Don't be afraid to admit your mistakes, don't be afraid of repeated work to correct them - and we will be at the very top.

It is impossible to live in society and be free from society.

There is no abstract truth, truth is always concrete.

It is impossible to learn to solve our problems using new techniques today if yesterday's experience did not open our eyes to the incorrectness of the old techniques.

The state is a machine for maintaining the dominance of one class over another.

Matter is an objective reality given to us in sensation.

Less political chatter. Less intellectual reasoning. Closer to life.

When the new has just been born, the old always remains, for some time, stronger than it; this is always the case both in nature and in social life.

The small owner exploits his hired workers especially harshly.

Patriotism is one of the deepest feelings, consolidated by centuries and millennia of isolated fatherlands.

Even in mathematics it is needed, even the discovery of differential and integral calculus would be impossible without imagination. Fantasy is a quality of greatest value.

Big words should not be thrown to the wind.

I don't know anything better than 'Apassionata', I'm ready to listen to it every day. Amazing, inhuman music. I always think with pride, perhaps naive and childish: these are the miracles people can do.

The most dangerous thing in war is to underestimate the enemy and rest in the belief that we are stronger. This is the most dangerous thing that can cause defeat in a war.

Political events are always very confusing and complex. They can be compared to a chain. To hold the entire chain, you need to cling to the main link.

Of all the arts, cinema is the most important for us.

Despair is characteristic of those who do not understand the causes of evil, do not see a way out, and are unable to fight.