Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.
My dear, it is very nice here, every day two or three persons are stabbed by soldiers in the city; there are daily arrests, but apart from these it is pretty gay...
The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.
The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.
Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.
There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy.
Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.
The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
It is in the tiny struggles of individual peoples that the great movements of history are most truly revealed.
Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.
The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.
The most revolutionary act is a clear view of the world as it really is.