My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims.

...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.