Roelof Botha Quotes

They do not even believe in God any more and … want to turn everything upside down in the apparent beautiful name of freedom and equality.

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.

Marxist literature dealt with wage exploitation, exploitation of women by men, the exploitation of people of color by white peoples, the exploitation of colonial countries by imperialist countries. And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.

At the end of the day, violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid.

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

Liberation is no longer, and can be no longer, merely a national concern. The dimension of the struggle, as Lenin and the Bolsheviks so clearly saw, is international: its road is the socialist revolution

Better a hundred years of tyranny than one day of anarchy.

The socialist or anarchist who seeks to overturn present conditions is to be regarded as attacking the foundation upon which civilization itself rests.

It is the historical mission of the Communist International to be the gravedigger of bourgeois society.

Marxist revolutions generally happened in countries that otherwise could not have carried out an industrial revolution.

Bad as despotism is, doomed as it is to work its own ruin, the first fruits of its overthrow are not love and liberty.

Better 100 years of tyranny than one day of anarchy.

Communism was not only defined as the things that Marx and Lenin had advocated, but included anything that had the potential for change in the society.

History is made in the class struggle and not in bed.

I'm a communist, man. I'm going to break the rules.

If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.

I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

Perhaps life had a meaning that transcended race and colour. If it had, I could not find it in South Africa.

I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.