“This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.”

“I believe in only one thing, the power of human will.”

“I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will”

“Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say: ‘Here I stand on the frontier between the old, capitalist world and the new, socialist world. Here on this frontier I unite the efforts of the proletarians of the West and of the peasantry of the East in order to shatter the old world. May the god of history be my aid!”

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

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

“[redacted; quotation spurious].”