If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.

The motive force of history is truth and not lies.

What shall we call an "immediate possibility"? In 1923 the situation in Germany was profoundly revolutionary, but what was lacking for a victorious revolution was a correct strategy.

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

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

Look back at history - those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.