We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension of the tasks of the proletarian dictatorship, are totally alien to Marxism, and, as a matter of fact, serve only to postpone the socialist revolution until people are different. No, we want the socialist revolution with people as they are now, with people who cannot dispense with subordination, control, and "foremen and accountants".

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

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

One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.

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.

Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.