Exported revolution is nonsense.

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

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.

Exported revolution is nonsense.

When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.

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

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.