For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society.

The society which we have built can in no way be termed "state socialism."The social organization which we have created can be termed a Soviet, socialist organization which has not yet been quite completed, but is in its root a socialist organization of society. The foundation of this society is public ownership.

To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.

I trust no one, not even myself.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

Artillery is the god of war.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.