The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, that each time ended, either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

American politics consist of two bands of baron robbers, alternately taking possession of and plundering the treasury of the state.

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind