“There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.”

“Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.”

“It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life.”

“Outer conditions do not resolve themselves without some kind of inner personal adjustment.”

“... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.”

“The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in constant crisis since World War II?”