You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

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

Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.

Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.

People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.