Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.