I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.
Each country, if it so desires, will make its own revolution. And if no such desire exists, no revolution will occur.
We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.
Yes, the electoral struggle [in U. S. S. R. ] will be animated. It will proceed around numerous very sharp questions, namely, practical questions having first-rate significance for the people.
Only when we succeed in creating such an order under which people receive for their labor from the society not according to the quantity and quality of labor, but according to their needs, will it be possible to say that we have built up a communist society.
I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.
[State] finds [frontier] either with the aid of force, as in 1914, when Germany invaded Belgium in order to deal a blow against France or it "borrows" a frontier, such as Germany did with regard to Latvia, for instance, in 1918, in attempting to break through to Leningrad across Latvia.
I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.
The way forward does not lie in amateur and comically timeless linguistic sociology which takes 'forms of life ' for granted (and this is what philosophy has been recently), but in the systematic study of forms of life which does not take them for granted at all. It hardly matters whether such an inquiry is called philosophy or sociology.
In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.
A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists.