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

The only one who doesn't make mistakes is the one who doesn't do anything.

Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.

No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Trust is good, but control is better.

How can you make a revolution without executions?

Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.

You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.

Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

There can be nothing more abominable than religion.

We are not shooting enough professors.