Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.

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.

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

What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball… I have no special corner in my heart for the ghetto: I am at home in the entire world, where there are clouds and birds and human tears.

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.

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

The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.