Soviet people are better off materially and richer spiritually.

- Leonid Brezhnev

When external and internal forces hostile to the development of socialism try to turn the development of a given socialist country in the direction o…

- Leonid Brezhnev

It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.

- Leonid Brezhnev

We Communists have got to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology. But we are going to continue…

- Leonid Brezhnev

There is nothing more practical than a good theory.

- Leonid Brezhnev

Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference…

- Leonid Brezhnev

We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.

- Leonid Brezhnev

Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: The energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the minerals…

- Leonid Brezhnev

The highest peace is the peace between opposites.

- Leonid Brezhnev