Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel.
Three keys to success: read, read, read.
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich – that is the democracy of capitalist society.
Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn.
One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
Trust is good, but control is better.
To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary- constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.
The revolution does not need historians.
All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.
The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.