To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

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.

People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.