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

The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust the bourgeoisie.

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.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

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

Any cook should be able to run the country.

The status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home, and only socialism can save them from this. They will only be completely emancipated when we change from small-scale individual farming to collective farming and collective working of the land.