Factions are a sign of illness in a party.

Revolution is not a goal in itself.

Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.

There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization.

Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.

The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

"Doctor, my leg hurts. What can I do?" The doctor says, "Limp!"

You can’t stop a revolution from breathin’, so to beat ‘em they offer people the illusion of freedom.

It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.

A good many people voted for [Barack] Obama, and I'm not only talking about the black vote. A lot of people voted for Obama because of our history of racial discrimination in this country.

Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.