One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.

Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.

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

Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

The goal of socialism is communism.

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