The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

National self-sufficiency or "autarchy" is the ideal of [Adolf] Hitler, not of [Karl] Marx and [Vladimir] Lenin.

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

Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.

Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.