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

Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

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.

The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A 'neutral' position is tantamount to support of imperialism.

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

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.