Education is no substitute for intelligence.
Artillery is the god of war.
We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.
Yes, the electoral struggle [in U. S. S. R. ] will be animated. It will proceed around numerous very sharp questions, namely, practical questions having first-rate significance for the people.
Only when we succeed in creating such an order under which people receive for their labor from the society not according to the quantity and quality of labor, but according to their needs, will it be possible to say that we have built up a communist society.
I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.
[State] finds [frontier] either with the aid of force, as in 1914, when Germany invaded Belgium in order to deal a blow against France or it "borrows" a frontier, such as Germany did with regard to Latvia, for instance, in 1918, in attempting to break through to Leningrad across Latvia.
If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.
It’s a very interesting thing to try to be your absolute best—not a percent better or a percent worse than that.
The main thing is to study pictures and stop listening to the pontifictaions of photographers. Photographers aren't oracles of wisdom. If they're good photographers, then take a good look at their pictures - what else do you need?
I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.