Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.

No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.

Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.

Ideological talk and phrase mongering about political liberties should be disposed with; all that is just mere chatter and phrase mongering. We should get away from those phrases.

It is necessary to be able to withstand all this, to agree to any and every sacrifice, and even - if need be - to resort to all sorts of stratagems, manoeuvres and illegal methods, to evasion and subterfuges in order to penetrate the trade unions, to remain in them, and to carry on Communist work in them at all costs.

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.