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

Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is no unemployment and pauperism, where a person does not tremble because tomorrow he may lose his job, home and bread.

The people who cast the votes decide nothing; the people who count the votes decide everything.

Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?

We have no parties standing in opposition to each other, just as we have no class of capitalists and a class of workers exploited by capitalists in opposition to each other.

The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.

Only when we succeed in creating such an order under which people receive for their labor from the society not according to the quantity and quality of labor, but according to their needs, will it be possible to say that we have built up a communist society.