Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion.

In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.

The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution."

It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.

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