To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.

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

Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on

To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary- constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.

Our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war.

You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.

A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines