"Revolutions are the locomotives of history...." - Quote by Karl Marx

“Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.”

“All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy”

“Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.”

“In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.”

“A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.”

“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

“All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.”

“A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill”

“South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting.”