The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.

The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say: ‘Here I stand on the frontier between the old, capitalist world and the new, socialist world. Here on this frontier I unite the efforts of the proletarians of the West and of the peasantry of the East in order to shatter the old world. May the god of history be my aid!

There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.