One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old

Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.

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

With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "giving a hiding" to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.

When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.

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

Yet the proletariat has not only a vanguard, but also a rearguard, and besides the proletariat there are the peasantry and the bureaucracy.