Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.

The star of revolution will rise high above the streets of Moscow, from a sea of blood and fire, and turn into a lodestar to lead a liberated humanity

The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will.

Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.

The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense; first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above all, he is guilty against the State in arrogating to himself one of its most precious privileges.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.