To renounce the conquest of power is voluntarily to leave the power with those who wield it, the exploiters. The essence of every revolution consisted and consists in putting a new class in power, thus enabling it to realize its own program in life. It is impossible to wage war and to reject victory.

The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.

Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions.

You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.

...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.