History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.

An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. About Russia

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.