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

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.

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.

Love may be blind, but lust is just damn stupid.

This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.

You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.

I'm a huge sucker for comfort.

If someone writes a nice review of my record, I feel like I should take them out to dinner or go over and clean their apartment.

Success is the most convincing talker in the world.

I should never have played with fire and I did. And I got very burned.