“No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.”

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

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.

But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not “in the name of capitalism,” but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.

There can be nothing more abominable than religion.

The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.

The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.

When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.

Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.

We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.

As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.

Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.

The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.

We are not here to be popular, we are here to be free.

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion.

To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.

We are all servants of the laws in order to be free.

I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.

It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.