In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

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

The main task of Socialism - the organization of Socialist production - remains still in the future.

I feel here that this time they have succeeded.

The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.

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 The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.