From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs
If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.
When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called the People's Stick.
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.
The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
The inconceivable had become the usual, the impossible possible, and the possible and the usual unthinkable.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.