"You are pitiful, isolated individuals! You are bankrupts. Your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!"

"Art, like science, does not seek to impose its will on life, but rather to reflect it, to understand it, and to reveal its inner laws."

"The historic mission of the proletariat is to create a classless society."

"The historical 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."

"The working class cannot emancipate itself without freeing all the oppressed classes."