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

Revolution is not a goal in itself.

Factions are a sign of illness in a party.

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.

If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.

rational of whatever is happening all around came together in a train of light which, when it traverse in return, is the pervasive expression of one's own mind

When things are going really well, we should take time to notice it.

great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.

That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make it true. You see?

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.

History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with life to write good history.

At first Eric stares at Four in silence. Four stares back.