If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.

The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.

Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.

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

Only when the kulak refused to deliver grain to the State did [Joseph] Stalin, under the pressure of the Left Opposition, accomplish a sharp turn. Being the empiricist that he is, he moved, to the opposite extreme, and set as a task for two or three years the collectivization of all the peasantry, the liquidation of the kulaks as a class, and the compression of the Five Year Plan into four years.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any other country.