In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.

A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement - an obviously fantastic assumption!- that would by no means prevent a new war. The imperialists do not make war because there are armaments; on the contrary, they forge arms when they need to fight.

In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.

Look back at history - those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.