The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.

Allra mest tyckte jag om att få var svinaktig med Hitler og Stalin.

We have conquered everything, and everything has slipped out of our grasp.

Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril.

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.

The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it.

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.