Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.

The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

It is therefore not true that the mere existence of the Soviet Union is capable of assuring the victory of the revolution in other countries.

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.

Terror, as the demonstration of the will and strength of the working class, is historically justified, precisely because the proletariat was able thereby to break the political will of the intelligentsia, pacify the professional man of various categories and work, and gradually subordinate them to its own aims within the field of their specialties.

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.