The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust the bourgeoisie.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.

One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary- constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.