With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "giving a hiding" to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.

The motive force of history is truth and not lies.

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

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

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

Revolutions are always verbose.

In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.