"I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to …"

"Ideas do not need weapons."

"The greatest danger to the world is not war, but the unequal distribution of wealth."

"Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist."

"We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out."