How can you make a revolution without executions?
You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.
A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.
It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back
Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.