“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.”

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”

“It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them.”

“People who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”

“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”

“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

“...[I]ron discipline does not preclude but presupposes criticism and contest of opinion within the Party. Least of all does it mean that discipline must be 'blind'. On the contrary, iron discipline does not preclude but presupposes conscious and voluntary submission, for only conscious discipline can be truly iron discipline.”