I feel here that this time they have succeeded.

In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment. The technique of the process is gentler, but its essence is the same.

Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.

He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.

The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.

The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.

Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.