Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy's cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all.