Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.

We are not shooting enough professors.

One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.

You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.

I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.

The whole struggle of our Party (and of the working class movement in Europe generally) must be directed against opportunism. The latter is not a current of opinion, not a tendency; it (opportunism) has now become the organised tool of the bourgeoisie within the working class movement.

A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines