There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.

Be as radical as Reality.

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all.

In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.