No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.
A healer of others, himself diseased.
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
Change is not always progress. . . . A fever of newness had been everywhere confused with the spirit of progress.
Any political system can commit mistakes and any state can commit mistakes. What is most important is to acknowledge these mistakes and put them right as soon as possible and put those behind them into account, bring them to account.
I've met kids who haven't had the best of parents but because they had something in them, or they had somebody at school help develop them, they turned out fine.