"The history of a revolution is for us first of all the history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny."

"The party replaces the working class, the central committee replaces the party, and finally the dictator replaces the central committee."

"The permanent revolution, in the Marxian sense, means that the revolution does not stop at the democratic stage but goes over to the socialist stage."

"As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and wi…"

"The working class, having seized power, must immediately proceed to socialist transformations."