The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.

Trust is good, but control is better.

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.

A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines

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.