There can be nothing more abominable than religion.

One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.

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.

We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.