Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

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

It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.

The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.

Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.

The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.