The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.

The Jewish bourgeoisie are our enemies, not as Jews but as bourgeoisie. The Jewish worker is our brother.

For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.

I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.

Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.

Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.

Act with the greatest determination and on the offensive. The defensive is the death of every armed rising.

In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.

The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation

The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

National self-sufficiency or "autarchy" is the ideal of [Adolf] Hitler, not of [Karl] Marx and [Vladimir] Lenin.

The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.

Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

We have taken plants from the capitalist system where the most important thing was to produce, especially in Cuba.

Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.

I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.

The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavour to keep them disunited.

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.

There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.

I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.

Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.

When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.

Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

To execute a man we don't need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it's necessary to execute him. It's that simple.

When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.

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

In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.

The constitution of Soviet Russia must insure equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex, creed, race, or nationality.

Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world.

The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.

If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers' State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.

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