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

There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.

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

Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.

We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to ensure their interests.

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.

The art of leadership is a serious matter. One must not lag behind a movement, because to do so is to become isolated from the masses. But one must not rush ahead, for to rush ahead is to lose contact with the masses. He who wished to lead a movement must conduct a fight on two fronts--against those who lag behind and those who rush ahead.