Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of warlike clashes.

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

How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?

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

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

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.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.