We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.

Our society consists exclusively of free working people of cities and villages, workers, peasants, intelligentsia. Each of these strata may have its special interests and express them in numerous existing organizations.

It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" the unemployed can have who go hungry and cannot find utilization of their labor.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin

The people will always attempt to find the positive aspects of all circumstances, which, in themselves, are not susceptible to danger.

He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.

The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.