When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.

Recovery proceeding excellently. Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting them, will be exemplarily ruthless.

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.