"I'm not interested in preserving the status..." - Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“Politics have no relation to morals.”

“It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.”

“Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there's no honey without bees.”

“Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.”

“You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.”

“Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.”

“Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.”

“Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from capitalist to socialist ownership in private industry and commerce is bound to bring about a tremendous liberation of the productive forces. Thus, the social conditions are being created for a tremendous expansion of industrial and agricultural production.”

“If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.”