Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to listen to it.

Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.

The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people.

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.

Freedom only for supporters of the government, only for the members of one party - however numerous they may be - is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of 'justice' but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when 'freedom' becomes a special privilege.

Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.