“Every society is three meals away from chaos” 

“We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension of the tasks of the proletarian dictatorship, are totally alien to Marxism, and, as a matter of fact, serve only to postpone the socialist revolution until people are different. No, we want the socialist revolution with people as they are now, with people who cannot dispense with subordination, control, and "foremen and accountants".” 

“The intellectual forces of the workers and peasants are growing and getting stronger in their fight to overthrow the bourgeoisie and their accomplices, the educated classes, the lackeys of capital, who consider themselves the brains of the nation. In fact they are not its brains but its shit.” 

“Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes).” 

“Three keys to success: read, read, read.” 

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

“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” 

“Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.” 

“Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.” 

“Sometimes - history needs a push.” 

“The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.” 

“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” 

“When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.” 

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

“Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.” 

“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.” 

“My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.” 

"“Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain”"

“For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.” 

“Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.” 

“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.” 

“For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.” 

“It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.” 

“There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.” 

“To learn is to be young, however old.” 

“They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn” 

“Memory is the mother of all wisdom. ” 

“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.” 

“Suffering brings experience.” 

“Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.” 

“I know how men in exile feed on dreams” 

“There is no avoidance in delay.” 

“Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?” 

“Call no man happy till he is dead.” 

“In war, the first casualty is truth.” 

“I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death” 

“His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.” 

“In war, truth is the first casualty.” 

“She looked just like a painting dying to speak.” 

“It's not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath” 

“Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.” 

“It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.” 

“The reward of suffering is experience.

“Words are doctors for the diseased temper.” 

“PROMETHEUS: 'Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers” 

“Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.” 

“In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.” 

“Only through suffering do we learn” 

“Your speech is pompous sounding, full of pride, as fits the lackey of the Gods. You are young and young your rule and you think the tower in which you live is free from sorrow: from it have I not seen two tyrants thrown? The third, who now is king, I shall yet live to see him fall, of all three most suddenly, most dishonored. Do you think I will crouch before your Gods, -so new-and tremble? I am far from that.” 

“I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.”