"The bureaucracy, by its very nature, is conservative and seeks to preserve its own privileges."

"The working class must be armed to defend its revolution."

"The party is not a substitute for the class, but its most conscious and advanced part."

"The revolution is like the god Saturn, it devours its own children."

"The permanent revolution, in the sense which Marx attached to this concept, means a revolution which does not stop at the democratic stage, but which goes on to the socialist transformation of society…"