Power & Society Sayings

May not machines carry out something which ought to be described as thinking but which is very different from what a man does?

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

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

Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.

United States will come to talk to us when they have a black president and the world has a Latin American pope.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

It is well known that the Black race is the most oppressed and most exploited of the human family.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

Better to kill an innocent by mistake than spare an enemy by mistake.

Democracy is for the weak—I bring discipline.

An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.

Democracy is not a bottle of Coca-Cola which you can import. Democracy should develop according to that particular country.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

I have been as good a friend to you as you have been to me. I don't care a snap for your laws. I have got the power, and I'll use it.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

I defy all the world to show a more perfect law than the one that is given to us.