Power & Society Sayings

If the lack of freedom is considered normal, there will be no complaints.

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.

There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.

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

Democracy is for the weak—I bring discipline.

A prisoner can not do anything for the people.

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.

Traitors in Russia must be brought to justice.

But then you would not be worthy of the crown, but, instead, an enemy of the public well-being of your vassals.

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.

Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.

I still have my first dollar. I keep it in a small frame, and it reminds me of where I came from.