Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.
I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
The press is our chief ideological weapon.
If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!
Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?
Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.
If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.
Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.
Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.
What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.
When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.
He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.
If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
We say the name of God, but that is only habit.
When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.
Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?
Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.
If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.
If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.
Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there.
In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.
They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.
All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.
What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
