Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.

Farmers present by themselves the basic force of the national movement. Without farmers there can be no strong national movement. This is what we mean when we say that the nationalist question, is actually, the farmers' question.

Quantity has a quality all its own.

Exported revolution is nonsense.

I fail to see what dangers surrounding states can see in the ideas of the Soviet people if these states are really firmly seated in their saddles.

Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is no unemployment and pauperism, where a person does not tremble because tomorrow he may lose his job, home and bread.

Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.