Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes).

The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.

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