The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.

One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.

Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary- constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.