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

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

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.

Bandar had effortlessly converted Ratiram’s grit into the smoke rings that he blew triumphantly in the air.

Really? We always have a choice, do we? What about the choices that other people make that end up completely changing your life, not theirs? Where is our choice there, then?

Too bad one night couldn't turn into forever.

I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.

A human can alter their field, but can't change the world.

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

Run, jump, shout, but do not sin.

That was never on my radar, traffic stopping. It was never important to me.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.