Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
Revolutions are always verbose.
Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey their own laws.
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
Between his consciousness and events stood always that impenetrable medium – indifference.
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.
If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one’s life, without seeing oneself in the mirror of literature?
Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.
In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
I was not prepared to play the role of singer in the camp of the warriors
Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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