Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'
[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution."