To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and the… - Vladimir Lenin

The train of history makes sharp turns and those who are not skilled riders fall off the train.

Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations — all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism.

The real emancipation of the Chinese people from age-long slavery would be impossible without the great, sincerely democratic enthusiasm which is rousing the working masses and making them capable of miracles, and which is evident from every sentence of Sun Yat-sen's platform.