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.

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

Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.

No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.

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

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back

The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.