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

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

In speaking of the capitalists who strive only for profit, only to get rich, I do not want to say that these are the most worthless people capable of doing nothing else. Many of them undoubtedly possess great organising talent, which I would not dream of denying. We Soviet people learn a lot from the capitalists. But if you mean people who are prepared to reconstruct the world, of course you will not be able to find them in the ranks of those who faithfully serve the cause of profit. ..The capitalist is riveted in profit and nothing can tear him away from it.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

[After Communism succeeds] ...then, there will come a peace across the earth.

Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.

The term "state socialism" is not precise. Under this term many understand an order under which a certain part of the wealth, sometimes a quite considerable part, passes into state ownership or under its control while in the great majority of cases the ownership of plants, factories, and land, remains in private hands.