Yet the proletariat has not only a vanguard, but also a rearguard, and besides the proletariat there are the peasantry and the bureaucracy.

The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.

Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

The main task of Socialism - the organization of Socialist production - remains still in the future.

He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.