[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own..

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long..

The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preser….

The hardest thing about being a communist is trying to predict the past..

The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest..