“Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.”

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.

One cannot live in society and be free from society.

The goal of socialism is communism.

But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.

I want people to learn what democracy means.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.

If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy.

We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources.

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.