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.

Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.

The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary technical development and destructiveness of the instruments of war.

Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!

The victory of socialism will not descend like fate from heaven.

There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.