You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a change in society but also to change yourselves, and prepare yourselves for the exercise of political power.

History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.

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

The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.