Philosophy Quotes

"Compromise with the bureaucracy is the slow poison that kills revolutionary movements."

"The machinery of production determines the relations between men far more than philosophy."

"To be attacked by the enemy is not a bad thing but a good thing."

"The path of progress is never smooth and straight."

"Everything I have said and done in these years is relativism by intuition."

"I am, in essence, a realist."

"The nation is not ethnic, but spiritual in character."

"I am a bundle of contradictions."

"I am no longer an agnostic but a pragmatist."

"A nation's wealth is measured not in gold, but in the dignity of its people."

"Understanding the laws of history gives one the ability to shape the future."

"How is it possible to think of an artist or a philosopher unconcerned with the problem of good and evil?"

"The intellectual must be involved in the struggles of the people."

"One cannot serve both power and justice; one must choose."

"Fascism is not merely a political system but a way of life."

"Philosophers talk while leaders act."

"The intelligentsia is the worst social stratum."

"When there is a person, there is a problem. When there is no person, there is no problem."

"Quantity has a quality all its own."

"The correctness of a party line is not a matter for mechanical generalization."

"The intellectuals must be brought to heel or eliminated."

"The correctness or incorrectness of the ideological and political line decides everything."

"The highest form of consciousness is the acceptance of historical necessity."

"To understand the world, one must study its contradictions."

"Philosophy without practice is merely idle conversation among the privileged."

"Nothing human is alien to me."

"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes."

"Dialectics cannot be learned like grammar. It is a living method of thought."

"Idealism and realism must be united in revolutionary practice."

"The individual who acts alone against history is merely a victim of circumstance."