"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."

"If I am not I, then who is I?"

"Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service."

"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."

"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into a state of despair and cynicism unless you have an ideal to cling to."