"The working class needs a party, a vanguard, to lead it to victory."

"The historical ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind nature, of the conscious over the unconscious, of the rational over the …"

"The revolution is the only way out of the crisis."

"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into a little of everything."

"Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes …"