“Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.”

“The intellectual forces of the workers and peasants are growing and getting stronger in their fight to overthrow the bourgeoisie and their accomplices, the educated classes, the lackeys of capital, who consider themselves the brains of the nation. In fact they are not its brains but its shit.”

“Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.”

“Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.”

“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”

“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.”

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”