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

One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.

How can you make a revolution without executions?

A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.

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

We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.

We do not have time to play at “oppositions” at “conferences.” We will keep our political opponents,whether open or disguised as “nonparty,” in prison.

Trust is good, but control is better.

We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.

You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.

Don’t be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

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

Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

But I can’t listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.

Any idiot can see something wrong. But can you see what is right?

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

I am dedicated to end the disenfranchisement of Black America, that has been present for too long.

Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.

What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.

Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.