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Revolutions are always verbose.
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
Our party's most outstanding mediocrity.
Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction...
I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'
...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
The main task of Socialism - the organization of Socialist production - remains still in the future.
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
National self-sufficiency or "autarchy" is the ideal of [Adolf] Hitler, not of [Karl] Marx and [Vladimir] Lenin.
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers' State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.
The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].