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.

Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

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

We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.