"In general it is always empirical businessmen we are talking about when we refer to political economists, (who represent) their scientific creed and form of existence." 👤: Karl Marx 🕑: 1844 📚: Human Requirements and Division of Labour

"The most important thing is to know how to awaken in the still undeveloped masses an intelligent attitude towards religious questions and an intelligent criticism of religions." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1922 📚: The Significance of Militant Materialism

"Cadres are a decisive factor, once the political line is determined. Therefore, it is our fighting task to train large numbers of new cadres in a planned way." 👤: Chairman Mao 🕑: 1938 📚: Selected Works, Vol. II

"The democratic regime is the most aristocratic way of ruling. It is possible only to a rich nation." 👤: Leon Trotsky 🕑: 1938 📚: Discussions on the Transitional Program

"We fully regard civil wars, i.e., wars waged by the oppressed class against the oppressing class, slaves against slave-owners, serfs against land-owners, and wage-workers against the bourgeoisie, as legitimate, progressive and necessary." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1915 📚: Socialism and War

"If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance." 👤: Chairman Mao 🕑: 1937 📚: On Practice

"The question whether objective truth can be attributed to human thinking is not a question of theory but is a practical question." 👤: Karl Marx 🕑: 1845 📚: Theses On Feuerbach: Thesis 2

"It is well known that when you do anything, unless you understand its actual circumstances, its nature and its relations to other things, you will not know the laws governing it, or know how to do it, or be able to do it well." 👤: Chairman Mao 🕑: 1936 📚: Selected Works, Vol. I

"A rise in the price of labour, as a consequence of accumulation of capital, only means, in fact, that the length and weight of the golden chain the wage-worker has already forged for himself, allow of a relaxation of the tension of it." 👤: Karl Marx 🕑: 1867 📚: Capital, Volume I, Chapter 25

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." 👤: Karl Marx 🕑: 1852 📚: Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

"Our schoolteacher should be raised to a standard he has never achieved, and cannot achieve, in bourgeois society. This is a truism and requires no proof." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1923 📚: Pages from a Diary

"The commanders and fighters of the entire Chinese People's Liberation Army absolutely must not relax in the least their will to fight; any thinking that relaxes the will to fight and belittles the enemy is wrong." 👤: Chairman Mao 🕑: 1949 📚: Selected Works, Vol. IV

"It is the duty of the revolution to put an end to compromise, and to put an end to compromise means taking the path of socialist revolution." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1917 📚: Speech On The Agrarian Question November 14

"The unification of our country, the unity of our people and the unity of our various nationalities - these are the basic guarantees of the sure triumph of our cause." 👤: Chairman Mao 🕑: 1957 📚: On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People

"We fully regard civil wars, i.e., wars waged by the oppressed class against the oppressing class, slaves against slave-owners, serfs against land-owners, and wage-workers against the bourgeoisie, as legitimate, progressive and necessary." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1915 📚: Socialism and War

"All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided." 👤: Karl Marx 🕑: 1894 📚: Capital, Volume III

"When the masses are digesting a new and exceptionally rich experience of direct revolutionary struggle, the theoretical struggle for a revolutionary outlook, i.e., for revolutionary Marxism, becomes the watchword of the day." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1908 📚: Two Letters

"Cadres are a decisive factor, once the political line is determined. Therefore, it is our fighting task to train large numbers of new cadres in a planned way." 👤: Chairman Mao 🕑: 1938 📚: Selected Works, Vol. II

"The commanders and fighters of the entire Chinese People's Liberation Army absolutely must not relax in the least their will to fight; any thinking that relaxes the will to fight and belittles the enemy is wrong." 👤: Chairman Mao 🕑: 1949 📚: Selected Works, Vol. IV

"The so-called Great Powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole number of small and weak nations. And the imperialist war is a war for the division and redivision of this kind of booty." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1917 📚: State and Revolution

"the working class must break up, smash the “ready-made state machinery,” and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1917 📚: State and Revolution

"All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided." 👤: Karl Marx 🕑: 1894 📚: Capital, Volume III

"Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party." 👤: Chairman Mao 🕑: 1938 📚: Selected Works, Vol. II

"The question whether objective truth can be attributed to human thinking is not a question of theory but is a practical question." 👤: Karl Marx 🕑: 1845 📚: Theses On Feuerbach: Thesis 2

"A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties." 👤: Karl Marx 🕑: 1867 📚: Capital, Volume I, Chapter One

"And as to prices, they will serve the cause of socialism better, the more honestly they begin to express the real economic relations of the present day." 👤: Leon Trotsky 🕑: 1936 📚: Revolution Betrayed

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it." 👤: Karl Marx 🕑: 1845 📚: Theses On Feuerbach: Thesis 11

"Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fair sex (plain ones included)." 👤: Karl Marx 🕑: 1868 📚: Letter to Kugelmann

"This army has an indomitable spirit and is determined to vanquish all enemies and never to yield. No matter what the difficulties and hardships, so long as a single man remains, he will fight on." 👤: Chairman Mao 🕑: 1945 📚: Selected Works, Vol. III

"Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1915 📚: Socialism and War