Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with.
Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
Destroy the family, you destroy the country.
We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society.
Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population defenseless.
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
Movement is meditation. Move to win.
Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the horrors of life multiplied for some children, the image of childhood was increasingly exalted. Children became the last symbols of purity in a world which was seen as increasingly ugly.
If two of your films don't do well, people say you're out in the cold and your career is over. One film does well, and you've had the best year of your life! I don't believe in all that's written.
The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.