He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.

...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.

As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!

No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a certain disillusionment, of a lowering of the activity of the vanguard, and consequently, of the growing importance of the rearguard. [Joseph] Stalin's faction has raised itself on the wave of reaction against the October revolution.

That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.

There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against.

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.