Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.

The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.

The hardest thing about being a communist is trying to predict the past.