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.

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

The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.

Bad taste makes the day go by faster.

Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time - if not of my block - being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.

There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man.

To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path might lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it.

I buy magazines. I'm not floating around in my own universe. I'm interested in everything.

In the end it happens, in some way you couldn't imagine before.

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.

He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.

The difference in the way Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump talk about the middle class is stark. For Clinton, it's a story of hope. For Trump, it is a story of loss.