The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being. This is the illusion, dream, and postulate of Christianity.

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Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

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Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.

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Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

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A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.

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When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

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Democracy is the road to socialism.

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History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

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...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.

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