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• Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
• Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
• In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
• All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe.…
• I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
• Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
• The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would…
• You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into…
• The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the…
• In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the…
• Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
• The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

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