Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.

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

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.

In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.