Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.

If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.

After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious.... Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters

What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"?

I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.