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.

How can you make a revolution without executions?

Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on

We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.

A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.

Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.

Learning is never done without errors and defeat.