Surrender to what you know and you'll know more.
Whoever has an army has power, and war decides everything.
We must have faith, first, that the peasant masses are ready to advance step by step along the road of socialism under the leadership of the Party, and second, that the Party is capable of leading the peasants along this road. These two points are the essence of the matter, the main current.
It's always darkest before it becomes totally black.
At no time and in no circumstances should a Communist place his personal interests first; he should subordinate them to the interests of the nation and of the masses. Hence, selfishness, slacking, corruption, seeking the limelight, and so on, are most contemptible, while selflessness, working with all one's energy, whole-hearted devotion to public duty, and quiet hard work will command respect.
Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.
If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.
Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for Weak but detectable interaction between two neighboring universes that are otherwise not causally connected. Manifests itself in humans as a feeling of missing a place one has never been, a place very much like one’s home universe, or as a longing for versions of one’s self that one will never, and can never know.
I’d love to be faster. Physically I’m limited, but I’ve survived by using my head.