Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction...

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

One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old

A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.

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

Can and must! The proclamation of this new conception of [Joseph Stalin] is closed by the same words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution." In the course of a single year Stalin ascribed to [Vladimir] Lenin two directly opposed conceptions of the fundamental question of socialism. The first version represents the real tradition of the party; the second took shape in Stalin's mind only after the death of Lenin, in the course of the struggle against "Trotskyism".