Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

Without analysis, no synthesis.

The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

Fate is a given, destiny is what we do with it

Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down the greatest lost city on Earth.

You want to be bad, angel? I can teach you every position it comes in

I was going to take you out to lunch for your birthday . . . but you already are.

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard but takes the one before it and plays the game.

Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.

Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips.

Mary’s life shows that God accomplishes great deeds through those who are the most humble.

A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts.