The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world.

The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.

Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above these heights, new peaks will rise.

Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.

In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.