...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.

To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Religion is the balm of the people.

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

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

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.