Greatest All Time Quotes?

This is, if you're into quoting dictators. And a few others thrown in for color. Thanks to Brownbelly for some excellent research, wisdom and inspiration in pulling together our Saturday collection. Light the fire under their feet.

All that can be said of modern man is that he fornicated and read newspapers.
Camus (from memory)

Death solves all problems – no man, no problem.
Joseph Stalin

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
Joseph Stalin

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
Benito Mussolini

Chamberlain seemed such a nice old gentleman that I thought I would give him my autograph.
Adolf Hitler

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
Benito Mussolini

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
Mao Tse-Tung

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
Mao Tse-Tung

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
Mao Tse-Tung

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a “peace conference,” you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
Joseph Stalin

When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.
Mao Tse-Tung

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
Mao Tse-Tung

A true voluptuary will never abandon his mind to the grossness of reality.
Lord Byron

Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde

Oh, and just because he has so many fun and pointed quotes, I leave you with this one:

“Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.”
Oscar Wilde