From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!

Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.

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

City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.

In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment. The technique of the process is gentler, but its essence is the same.

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