“I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.”

“May I at least carry, to the boundless possibility contained in the abyss of everything, the glory of my disillusion like that of a great dream, and the splendor of not believing like a banner of defeat; a banner in feeble hands, but still and all a banner, dragged through mud and the blood of the weak but raised high for who knows what reason - whether in defiance, or as a challenge, or in mere desperation - as we vanish into quicksand. No one knows for what reason, because no one knows anything, and the sand swallows those with banners as it swallows those without. And the sand covers everything: my life, my prose, my eternity. I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.”

“Let him who doubts the victory wrest the banner from my hand.”

“Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!”

“Find a victory in every defeat to remain hopeful and find a defeat in every victory to remain humble.”

“Victory breeds hatred. The defeated live in pain. Happily the peaceful live,giving up victory and defeat.”