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

Actually, the decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this summary justice showed the world that we would continue to fight mercilessly, stopping at nothing. The execution of the Tsar's family was needed not only in order to frighten, horrify, and dishearten the enemy but also in order to shake up our own ranks, to show them that there was no turning back, that ahead lay either complete victory or complete ruin.

Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

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 history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.