I say that when a lucky chance brings us an affair like this we should be fools not to profit by it.
"How?
We are given an opportunity of striking terrible, perhaps fatal, blows against militarism.

And am I to fold my arms?
I tell you, comrades, I am not a fakir, I have never been a fakir, and if there are fakirs here let them not count on me.

To sit in meditation is a policy without results and one which I shall never adopt.
"A party like ours ought to be continually asserting itself.

It ought to prove its existence by continual action.

We will intervene in the Pyrot affair but we will intervene in it in a revolutionary manner; we will adopt violent action.