Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.